Characteristics Of John Keats As A Poet

What is a Poet

What is a poet, we all ask this question in some english classes but do we really know what a poet is? The official definition is a “person possessing special powers of imagination or expression or a person who writes poems”. That would make us all poets since we write them for english and literature classes. When we write a poem we wonder how do we write a poem or what is a poem. The Webster’s dictionary definition is “a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stannic structure.”

My personal opinion is a piece of literature that makes people feel something whether feel something good or bad, long or short. Its whatever the poet makes it and its completely original and personal to the person who writes the

They are still using the works they have made and they will last a lot longer than any of us. That’s what I like about them they transcended the bonds of time. They will be remembered for all time.

John Keats, nowadays is renowned as a leading poet of the Romantic time period, he was brutally ridiculed by many critics and by other poets. During his life, Keats went up against the problems of his lower class social standing, little education, association with the "Cockney School" of poetry, and bad health, as he sought to increase his skills as a poet and advance his theories. Even after his death at the age of 25, Keats’s poetry continued to be disparaged as sensitive, simplistic, sensuous. and by the twentieth century, however, his position within the Romantic movement had been revalued by critics. Keats continues to draw scholarly, critical, and popular attention. Issues examined by modern critics include Keats 's political leanings; his theories regarding poetic imagination and negative, the rapid development of his poetry from the Cockney style to his more