In Keats` Narrative Poems We Find A Wide Range Of Subject Matter And Styles, Discuss And Illustrate

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In Keats` Narrative Poems We Find A Wide Range Of Subject Matter And Styles, Discuss And Illustrate

Keats` poems differentiate in style from many traditional writers such as Shakespeare and Spencer. He revolutionises his poems and creates new styles of writing in his narratives and odes. His narrative poems gain influence from different subjects such as Greek Gods and Romanticism.

Although Keats` varies in his style of writing on of the main forms he uses for his narrative poems is couplets; pair of rhymed lines. He resists the formal 18th century style by creating a looser and more natural flow in his narratives, allowing him to spread his wings when writing poetry. In his narrative poems, we also see his varied use of enjambment which helps personalise as well as break the barriers of traditional style writing. His use of caesura is also very different from traditional poets, as he varies the use of caesura which gives a sense of freedom and not like in Pope where each two lines are a closed unit; it is not as predictable as in Keats` poetry on where he will use caesura and enjambment.

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In “Lamia” we see the world of Romance and Greek mythology. This is one of the subjects he has based his narratives on in many of his other poems such as “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” and “Hyperion.” We can see how Keats’ has chosen to create freedom for himself when writing by having enjambment, and varied use of caesura. This allows him to write more liberally and also allows him to create a more varied and interesting poem rather than focusing on having every two lines a closed unit which has to rhyme. We can see by looking ...

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