John Keats PPSC Preparation (English Literature History&Interesting Questions)

➤Define negative capability mean?

It is Pharase use by Keats in 1817. It means writers ability to portray something great in which he does not want to be in, but indirectly he exist in his creation and play his role. Like in Nightingale he was there indirectly. Like, if some poets reject their own identity to be shown.

➤Write down the Six Odes of Keats?

In 1819, John Keats wrote six odes

• "Ode to Psyche" 
• "To Autumn"
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• "Ode on Indolence", 
• "Ode on Melancholy"

• "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
• "Ode to a Nightingale"

➤By whom written the line "a thing of beauty is a joy forever"?

It was written in the poem Endymion a poem by John Keats in 1818.

Describe John Keats as a poet of beauty and sensuousness?

First, it should be known what is Sensuous? It means something which affects our sense rather than intellect. So Keats poetry appeals to our senses and has an influence on our minds. That is why he is called a poet of beauty and sensuousness.

➤What do you know about Keats?

He was born in Lonon on 31 October 1795. His poetry inspires so many poets. He portrayed the emotions through vivid imagery.

➤Name some of his famous poems?

Sleep and Poetry,

Ode to a Nightingale,

and a sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer".

➤How did Keats die?

He died because of disease Tuberculosis

➤In Which place of Itlay is Keats buried?

He is buried in Protestant Cemetery, Rome, Italy.

➤Who was the influence on John Keats personality?

Following are the:

~John Milton~

~Edmund Spenser~

~Virgil~

~William Hazlitt~

➤Write Name of John Keats parents?

Frances Jennings Keats was his mother and Thomas Keats was his Father.

➤Define ODE?

Ode expresses writers thoughts and ideas about a particular person or subject often it is a sad poem narrates the feelings and emotions. For example, Ode on a Grecian Urn,” by John Keats.

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Define elegiac poem?

It is a sad poem. It expresses the sorrow and gloom. Usually given on funerals.

*Keats wrote many Odes, a kind of Poems.

*He published 54 poems.

*He never married to his beloved Fanny Brawne.