FIRST PAPER

Subject : # 14217 Poesia Anglesa dels segles XIX i XX Grup A

Student´s name : Oltra Malfeito, Sheila

Title of the paper : “Struggling between the real world and the imaginative world”

Author or topic : "John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale"

Abstract : This paper is based on the poem “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats, one of the Big Six writers of the Romantic period. This is one of his major works where he struggles between the real world and the ideal world. In this poem, he is trying to escape from the real world. So, the important themes in this poem would be nature and mortality. Through nature, by listening to a nightingale singing he thinks that death is one way to escape from this world. Keats works achieved success after he died, even though he did not expect it. He thought he would not be remembered.

Auto- evaluation: I think I have achieved the purpose of this paper, although poetry for me is quite difficult. I find it difficult to understand, but, by reading the life of the author and relating his works to the historical and social context, I have been able to understand his poem and to produce a paper.

Academic year 2007/2008
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Sheila Oltra Malfeito
seolmal@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press