SECOND PAPER

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

Student´s name : Oltra Malfeito, Sheila

Title of the paper : “Death and imagery in Keats and Tennyson”

Author or topic : “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats and “In Memoriam XXIII” by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Abstract : I have decided to compare the poems “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats and “In Memoriam XXIII” by Alfred Lord Tennyson because I think they have different aspects in common and we are going to see how Keats influenced Tennyson in the use of imagery and, of course, the most important theme on these poems, “death”. Both poets need to know about the end of their lives. Keats approaches his death with a Romantic serenity; however, Tennyson approaches his death with the inner angst of the Victorian loss of faith. Both of them are also quite subjective when expressing his feelings and sufferings. They based these two poems we have seen on their moods. I think these similarities between Keats and Tennyson are due to their proximity in time. Keats is situated at the end of the Romantic period and he is the predecessor of Tennyson who is situated at the beginning of the Victorian period.

Auto- evaluation: I think I have achieved the purpose of this paper. I have compared two poems of two different authors and two different periods. I have showed which aspects they have in common, how they are related and the influence of one of them in the other.

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