Community Assignment: "The Life of John Keats; A Romantic Poet"

After going through many blogs created by the groups of students, I found one containing posts that caught my eye.  These posts came from the blog "The Life of John Keats; A Romantic Poet"; it holds the analysis and interpretations of Keats’ various works.  The overall look of the blog held a simple and non-distracting look.  I liked the poll asking about our favorite romantic poet; it was a fun thing to add to the blog project.  The “Helpful Resources” of course helped; it had not only sources for the different poets but also sources that helped with English writing.  To give a better understanding of Keats’ works acted as this blog’s main goal, but to also help list resources of other poets obtained as a great touch.  I found that the section containing Keats’ poems was a smart idea, because it allows the readers to follow a post along with a poem.  There was a lot of thought put into creating this blog. 

A few posts caught my eye like the one “On Fame”.  The person connected Keats’s poem to the pop culture today, so it relates to current main stream in my life; I can understand the post better.  I liked how they mentioned the difference in who fame follows today and Keats’ view on whom it follows.  The most interesting posts I read would be the poems “Something to Nothing” and “The Moon is Mourning Beside Me”; they held a deep meaning and story behind it all.  The first poem described the life of a loved one from the start and letting them go.  It had great visuals along with the description of self conflict.  The second poem also revealed a love story; they couldn’t stand the separation from their love.  Although not in a literal form and hard to grasp at first, it was a good poem to interpret. 

            For those who are new to Romanticism or want to learn more about Keats, this blog provides a variety of different interpretations on the same theme from Keats, and they are all on different works.  I noticed that a lot of Keats’ works were about love, yet the works had a dark feel.  With these analyses in the blog, viewers will get a better understanding of Keats’ and his works.