Discuss one lyric poem and one narrative poem by John Keats?s — one of his odes next to one of his romances. How do the language, images, myths, motifs, and structures of one poem help us to understand the other?
Choose 1 Ode and 1 of his romances from below to compare:
On First Looking into Chapman?s Homer (1396), Sleep and Poetry 1-40 (handout), Endymion 1.777-842: The ?Pleasure Thermometer?, Letter to his brothers (1404), On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again (1405), When I have fears (1406), Letters to Reynolds (1406, 1423), Ode to Psyche (1462) Letter to Bailey (1403), from Hyperion, Book 1, lines 1-157 (1425-29), Letter to George and Georgiana Keats (1458), La Belle Dame sans Merci (1460), Ode on
Melancholy (1469) The Eve of St. Agnes (1446), Ode on a Grecian Urn (1466), Ode on Indolence, Ode to a Nightingale (1464), Lamia, Letter to Woodhouse (1424), To Autumn (1489), Bright Star (1502), This living hand (1503)


