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Keats

Keats

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A famous English poet from the early 1800s who wrote rich, emotional poems
  • proper noun
  • /kiːts/
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  • What kind of weird pseudo biological claim can you make on John Keats or say Jim Smathers can make on on John Keats because you're white.

Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton.

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Examples

  • So let me conclude with this great poem of, of, of Keats that you know, beauty is truth and truth beauty.

  • And if you were John Keats or if you were Gramsci, you, you got tenure.

  • So, you know, John, John Keats was probably more prolific, but he died young.

  • But then you ever see that thing where of Keats's notes for a thing of beauty is a joy forever.

  • It's in that context that the remarks he's making about Keats have to be understood.

  • Dunbar, who understood and appreciated John Keats concept of negative capability, would want it that way.

  • Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton.

  • Now Stevenson, unlike Keats, battled tuberculosis for decades.

  • And I'd like to remember it as a passionate poet who kept what John Keats calls the holiness of the hearts affections.

  • One of the most famous lines by Keats is, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

Synonyms

John Keats
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An English poet known for beautiful, emotional poems

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Etymology

Keats is an English family name and the famous poet's last name. One idea is that Keats comes from an old English word for a bird, 'kite', so a helpful image is to think of the poet as a sharp-eyed bird watching nature, which makes the name easier to remember.