1、Long Poems:Endymion,Isabella,The Eve of St.Agnes,LamiaHyperion.1.Endymion:A Poetical Romance(1818)is a poem of 4,000 lines The opening lines:A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:Its loveliness increases;it will never Pass into nothingness;but still will keep A bower quiet for us,and a sleep Full of s
2、weet dreams,and health,and quiet breathing.2.The story of Isabella,or the Pot of Basilbased on Boccaccios Decameron.Love story of Isabella and Lorenzo.Lorenzo was killed by Isabellas brothersIsabella finds the body of her beloved,buries the head in a flower-pot,sets a plant of basil over it and brin
3、gs it home.The description of the girls grief for her murdered lover is intensely touching:And she forgot the stars,the moon,the sun,And she forgot the blue above the trees,And she forgot the dells where waters run,And she forgot the chilly autumn breeze:She had no knowledge when the day was done,An
4、d the new morn she saw not:but in peace Hung over her sweet basil evermore,And moistened it with tears unto the core.3.The Eve of St.Agnes(1819)a narrative poem written in Spenserian stanzas.It is a coloured dream,a young mans poem like Romeo and Juliet.4.Lamia(1819)very much like our Tale of the Wh
5、ite Serpent5.The unfinished long epic HyperionHyperion and The Fall of HyperionTheme:the conflict between the old and the new,OdeAn elaborately formal lyric poem,often in the form of a lengthy ceremonious address to a person or abstract entity,always serious and elevated in tone.It airms at praising
6、 and glorifying an individual,commemoration an event,or describing nature intellectually rather than emotionally.Odes originally were songs fperformed to the accompaniment of a musical instrument.There are two different classical models:Pindars Greek choral odes devoted to public praise of athletes(
7、5th century BC),and Horaces more privately reflective odes in Latin(c.23-13 BC).It is said that all Keatss personality seems to be breathed into his odes,of which the more famous ones are Ode to Autumn,Ode on Melancholy,Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale,all written in 1819 and with the p
8、raise of beauty as their general theme.Sonnet When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,Before high-piled books,in characlery,Hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain;When I behold,upon the nights starred face,Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,And t
9、hink that I may never live to trace Their shadows,with the magic hand of chance;And when I feel,fair creature of an hour,That I shall never look upon thee more,Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone,and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.Remarks on KeatsThe one artistic aim in his poetry was always to create a beautiful world of imagination as opposed to the sordid reality of his day.His leading principle is:Beauty in truth,truth in beauty.
