Stylish Writing

John Keats's writing style;

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Keats's style and techniques he uses to write his poetry played a huge roll in romantic poetry. The unfortunate and terrible mishaps that happend to Keats's throughtout his lifed actually helped his writing in very postivie ways. He was able to channel all of his emotions into his poetry, allowing people to connect with him and relate or atleast understand what he was dealing with and going through. Basically Keats chose to write about the things his family and parents lacked, which was structure and romance.Thus stating he had a very unique sense of style of writing. Keat's has a very elaborate word choice and is talented with using vocabulary that can create images in your head to help guide you through his reading. This is very helpful because at times his poetry could be very tricky to read and you really need that visual imagery to help you grasp the real concept. Keats's writing was a little more risque than someone people liked, and that worked in his bennefit sometimes, and then other times it brought him down. People criticized him all the time because he was not afraid to tell it how it is, and speak his crazy mind, but he also had readers who kept wanting more from him because his writing could easily keep your attention. It took some time for people to fully understand the man and his writings, and after a while other poets began to use his style of writing, making it not so crazy (out there) but more common. Keats's had started a new phenomenon of romantic poetry. His writing was influentional, infact, he is known to be one of the most unfluentional poets in the Romantic era. Through all the stress his life held, writing was the one thing that helped him cope, he was able to say exactly how he felt and not be judged or told different because his writing was free. Keats has influenced the writiters of today, young and old, and im sure will continue to unfluence many more after them.

 His writing is simply legendary.

John Keats's "Isabella: or, the Pot of Basil"

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"Isabella or the Pot of Basil" is one of John Keats's most popular poems. Keats often associates love and pain both in his life and in his poetry, this poem is a great example of both. Here is a brief summary of the poem: The poem tells the tale of a young woman whose family intends to marry her to "some high noble and his olive trees", but the twist beings when she actually falls in love with the servant boy, Lorenzo, who is also one of her brother's workers. The brothers knew that they had met, but wishing to avoid a scandal, they pretended to have seen nothing. Finally they guide Lorenzo to a small area outside of the city, and there murder him. They tell their sister that Lorenzo had been sent on a long journey, but when days, weeks, even months, had passed, she could no longer restrain her uneasiness, and asked when he would return. The brothers tell Isabella nothing of the truth and try to lead her to believe that Lorenzo left on his own and do not know why he has yet to return. Isabella kept her love for so long, is a victim to fears and doubts, but in her solitude she called on her lover, making piteous moan that he would return. And he did, but only when she had fallen asleep, Lorenzo's ghost appeared, pale, blood-drabbled, with garments rent and mouldy, and addressed her: "Isabella, I can never return to you, for on the day we saw each other last your brother’s slew me." (Slew meaning murdered.) Isabella, slightly knowing of where Lorenzo's body lies because of him telling her in her sleep, searches for the grounds where Lorenzo's body lies, and ends up finding Lorenzo, dead just like he had told her. She then cut's his head off the body and buries Lorenzo's head in an old pot full of basil which Isabella tends to obsessively, while mourning the loss of her one true love. One day her brothers return and steal the pot that she had buried Lorenzo's head inside. Leaving Isabella feeling dead inside, sad and so lost with nothing left.