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In our syllabus we have paper of Romantic Literature in which one unit about John Keats and we learned about his poem. His poem about death.So, we have task about how Death is generally dealt by other writes in literature. First we discuss about john Keats and his poem on death and than we discusses about how death is generally dealt by other writers.Task given by Dr. Hinama'am zala professor of English department.
When we listen the word "Death" We afraid that something wrong happen with us and our beloved person. People don't want listen and talk about death. Death is reality cycle of our life.We know that one day death come than why we feel fear about death? people afraid about death.we are afraid about our beloved death whome we love. Death one time came in our life. Why we are not accept reality of life. People don't want to talk about death. But we can see that in literature writers have some kind of fascination towards death. In various form of literature we can see that many writer use theme of death. Death is most favourite and beloved subject for writer. Death is law of nature we can not disturb it, if we try to do it then it lead us to our destruction
Literary descriptions of death are thus not merely preoccupied with the painful scene of dying or individual loss, but the concept of death can be understood more widely as a site of many projections and fantasies and as metaphor of many social issues. Literature can also discuss death through metaphors and characterisation. Literature can provide us with ways of approaching death and imagination it from different perspectives. Some literary genres (elegies) are intentionally written as reactions to the loss of a loved object or a person, and literature can act as consolation to those who are suffering. In literature death exists at many levels: it is part of the narrations, imagery, metaphors and character traits: it reaches outside literature's own realm and discusses death-related social issues and emotions that are recognisable for the reader.
- John Keats
John Keats was one of the famous romantic poet who devoted his short life to the perfection of a poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal, and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend. John Keats was born in London , the eldest of Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats's four children. He was one of the most remarkable English poet. He published only fifty - four poems. Keats has made his mark as a narrative poet, a sonneteer, an a writer of narrative poems of great merit.The poem of Keats are flooded with sensuousness. Keats Ode to a Nightingale is considered one of the finest odes in English literature.
- Ode To A Nightingale
Ode To A Nightingale , the poet attempt to free the "weariness, the fever, and the fret," of our tragic existence, "where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies," first through an ecstasy of intoxication and then "on the view less wings of poesy," the mind attempting both to transcend life and remain aware of itself becomes lost in a dark wild, an "embalmed darkness" of-fleeting sensation that suggests not escape but its very opposite, death. But the nightingale - or ,rather , its song as the imagination elaborates upon it- is immortal, and in "ancient days" belonged to a world of enchantment . It is the same song , "that oft-times hath/charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam / of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn forlorn shocking the poet into awareness. The beauty of an imagined "long ago" suggested by this word turns by a sad pun into a remarkable moment of pained self-consciousness. The bird flies off, and " the fancy cannot cheat so well/As she is fam'd to do , deceiving elf./../was it a vision or a waking dream?/Fled is that music:-Do I wake or sleep?" The poem ends by dismantling its own illusion.
- A Dream Of Death : - By William Butler Yeats.
In this poem narrated is about to recount a dream. By using the word strange to specify how the death took place in a "Strange Place ", Yeats stresses the importance of begging if he were comfortable with the idea of a foreign land, the word strange would not be utilized. Yeats initially shields the importance of the person who has died, but as the poem progress, the reader becomes aware that the narrator is dreaming about someone who he loves dearly.
Yeats wrote this poem about the woman he loved Maud Gonne. At the time this poem was written, she was traveling to France. Yeats was afraid trip as she was predisposed to illness. The historic context shows how poem was personal to Yeats; however, the themes are important with or without historic context.
- Shakespeare's King Lear
Tragedy typically represents a meaningful and dramatic grand scale death that prolongs the scene of dying, as is the case in Shakespeare's King Lear The plot of classical, tragedy is based on suffering and the drama often ends in the premature death of the tragic hero combined with the development of some king of self-recognition. In tragedy the meaningful existence of the hero is paradoxically created by his death. Literature offers insights into death, dying and morality in multiple ways.
We have no reliable information about death as an experience, and this emphasizes Death's nature as a secret and mysterious event. Death is bitter truth of human life. Generally people afraid about death. But in literature death is most interesting and beloved topic of writers.
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