A beautiful picture
Cynthia “The moon goddess”
The Poet
John Keats
About the Poet
John Keats(1795-1821) Keats was a British
Romantic poet.He had a power to sway & delight The readers.The following is an excerpt from his poem “Endymion:A poetic Romance”.
Other poems of Keats are:Ode to Spring, An ode to a Grecian Urn,e.t.c.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
Its loveliness increases,it will never
Pass into nothingness,but will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams,and health, and
a quiet breathing.
The poem
A bower
Q.1.What is the poet’s opinion about a thing
of beauty?
Q.2What do you understand by “Its loveliness increases’it will never pass into nothingness”?
Q.3What do you mean by a bower?
Q.4.How does a bower comfort you?
Q.5.Find words in the above lines which mean:
(1)beauty (2)shady trees
Q.6.Name and explain the figure of speech used in the first line?
Therefore on every morrow,are we wreathing
A flowery band to bind us to the earth,
Spite of despondence,of the inhuman dearth
Of noble natures,of the gloomy days,
Of all the unhealthy and over-darkened ways
Made for our searching yes,in spite of all,
A wreathe of flowers
Q.1What are we doing everyday?Why?
Q.2What are some of the unhealthy habits we possess?
Q.3.What do you understand by “spite”?
Q.4.What do you understand by “despondence"? What do
you understand by “spite of despondence”?
Q.5What do you understand by “dearth”?
Q.6.Give an example of noble nature?
Q.7.Mention some of the unhealthy habits ?
Q.8.What is the consequence of these habits?
Q.9.Name the figure of speech used in “Therefore -------are
we wreathing”.Explain
Q.10.What is the figure of speech used in the third line?
Q.4 Find words from the passage which mean:
(1)malice (2)unhappiness(3)(4)scarcity(5)possessing dignity
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
From our dark sprits . Such the sun,the moon,
Trees old, and young, sprouting a shady boon
For simple sheep;
How is our sadness removed ?
Find words in these lines conveying same as :1)shroud 2)sadness
How does nature help in raising our spirits ?
For simple sheep; and such are daffodils
With the green world they live in; and clear rills
That for themselves a cooling covert make
‘Gainst the hot season; the mid forest brake,
Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms,
And such too is the grandeur of the dooms
We have imagined for the mighty dead ;
All lovely tales that we have heard or read;
An endless fountain of immortal drink
Pouring unto us from the heaven’s brink.
Explain: ‘the grandeur of the dooms’
What is the source of the ‘endless fountain of immortal drink’ ?
What is the effect of that immortal drink on us ?
Find words which mean i)magnificence ii)stories iii)that never dies iv)edge