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Thinking Activity on John Keats: Finding out approaches to Death in Literature

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Here is my blog on Thinking Activity on John Keats: Finding out approaches to Death in Literature by Dr. Heenaba Zala, Department of English.

 John Keats(1795-1821)

Keats devotion to beauty and poetry is all the more remarkable in view of his lowly origin. John Keats was famous poet.

              John Keats four odes, on a Grecian Urn, To a Nightingale, To Autumn and To Psyche. This poems are like an invitation to a feast. In Ode to a Nightingale may find four things a love of sensuous beauty , a  touch of pessimism, a purely pagan conception of nature and a strong individualism. 

If I Should die
            by Emily Dickinson


 "If I should die, and you should live 
And time should gurgle on, 
And morn should beam, 
And noon should nurn, 
As it has usual done."

             Emily Dickinson lets the reader known by the title, "If I Should die" that her poem is going to revolve around death. It seems that her poem consists of two parts concern the life. The first half addresses the natural aspect of life, which is displayed very peaceful part in the poem and the second part is about the human aspects of death and dying.


"The Death of the Ball  Turret Gunner"                      
                                    - Randall Jarrell

       "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" is a five-line poem by Randall Jarrell published in 1945. It is about the death of a gunner in a Sperry ball turret on a World War II American bomber aircraft. Jarrell was the perfect guy to write the ultimate war poem. He was not just some poet that decided to write about the brutality of war from the outside looking in. He was the real deal. He wasn't a ball turret gunner, but he was not  control tower operator working with bomber crews.

             The action in this poem is pretty straightforward. A soldier goes into battle in the ball turret of a World war-2 bomber.He is killed. The poem is written in the voice of the dead pilot. 
        
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  1. English Literature26 March 2021 at 09:29

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