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what politically was occuring when keats was born 1795
bread riots, crop failure, attack of the king’s carriage
how does the politics of keats time get reflected in his poetry
isabella, the brothers are capitalistic with aristocratic attitudes towards working classes
influence of spenser
he loved the Faery Queen and wrote his first poem in the style of spenser and uses spenserian stanzas, like eve of st agnes
fathers life
worked in stable, died in 1804 from horse wound.
mothers death
died in 1810
when did keat’s become a surgeon
1809 and became a poet in 1814
when did keats move to Wentworth place
1818
when did keats meet isabella jones
1817
when did keats meet fanny brawne
nov 1818
when did his brother die and what did this cause
1818, and Keat’s nursing likely made him contract tuberculosis
when did keats leave england and what happened
in 1820, and he couldnt see fanny again, and he died later.
what piece of literature likely inspired ode to a nightingale?
collection of stories called the Metamorphoses, by the Roman poet Ovid - woman is raped and has her tounge cut out and her and her sister are saved from murder by the gods by being turned into birds.The irony is that the woman who lost her voice (and her tongue) becomes the bird (nightingale) with one of the most beautiful voices in all of nature.
what modern irony is there in to autumn
keats apparently wrote it in winchester, which now has the countries largest carbon footprint
