Keats Reading Questions

Who or what does Keats address in his odes?

What art forms does Keats compare poetry to in these odes?

What is Keats’ attitude toward death in “When I Have Fears…”? In “Ode to a Nightingale?”

Compare “When I Have Fears…” and de Castro’s “As I composed this little book.” What are the similarities and differences? What are the two poets’ attitudes towards writing? What are their attitudes towards art?

What commonalities do you see between Keats’ poems and Wordsworth’s? What differences?

Which features of Romanticism (as discussed in the section introduction) do you see in Keats’ poems?