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Exploring Mortality: A Meditation on Keats and Wordsworth's Poetry

This essay delves into the works of Romantic poets John Keats and William Wordsworth, highlighting their shared experiences of loss and its influence on their literature. Both authors faced the tragedy of losing their parents at a young age, shaping their views on death and life in their poems. Through comparative analysis, the essay examines how each poet addresses the theme of mortality, reflecting their individual ideologies and poetic styles rooted in the Romantic period's emphasis on nature and individualism.

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Exploring Mortality: A Meditation on Keats and Wordsworth's Poetry

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  1. There’s No Avoiding Death: A Meditation on Keats and Wordsworth’s Poems. Adriana Martinez Traslosheros

  2. There’s no avoiding death: a meditation on Keats and Wordsworth’s poems. • “ There’s no avoiding death: a meditation on Keats and Wordsworth’s poems” is an essay comparing two famous English authors of the Romantic Period: John Keats and William Wordsworth. • Both Keats and Wordsworth lost their parents at a young age and their death had a clear impact on their lives and writing style. • The main purpose is to analyze their work and the role “death” plays for each one of these writers.

  3. Background • Romanticism (1770-1870): • Nature • Symbolism and Myth • Individualism • Nationalism • Revolution Era

  4. Like Two Peas in a Pod: Keats vs. Wordsworth

  5. John Keats • Born in London in October, 1795. • Haunted by constant death in his family. • Medical licence. • Isabella Jones vs. Fanny Brawne. • Moved to Rome with friend Joseph Severn. • Died of tuberculosis in February 1821, at age 25. • Considered to be more accomplished than Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton at their age.

  6. Ideals • FascinatedbyAncientGreekCulture. • Socrates and Plato. • Thebodyisprisontothesoul. • Makes death seem like a goal, an occasion worth of happiness and not of grief. • Can’t help his natural instinct of fearing death.

  7. Poetry

  8. William Wordsworth • Born in April 1770. • Second of five children. • Both parents die; separated from sister Dorothy. • Annette Vallon and Caroline. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Lyrical Ballads with a Few Other Poems” (1798). • Mary Hutchinson. • Died in April 1850, at age 80. • Poet Laureate.

  9. Ideals • French Revolution: freedom and equality. • Nature. • Death of his father vs. death of his mother. • Lucy Poems: Secret love and schizoid disorder. • Rejected complex forms and subjects of his time period.

  10. Poetry

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