Poem "Lines From Endymion"

Q1:   Explain the lines. “All lovely tails, we have heard to read -------- from the heaven’s brink.”

      The lovely stories that we have read or heard about the mighty people of the past, who are now dead, increases our knowledge as well as gives us joys.

      This Knowledge is about the great and countless personalities are like an endless fountain of knowledge, which is falling our us, from the brink (edge) of heaven. It is this knowledge which is endless and which is never destroyed with the passage of time. This knowledge enriches us and delights us.

Q2:   What thing of beauty inspires Keats in the poem?

   Despite the hardships and miseries of life, Keats had the heart to enjoy the beauties of the nature as well as literature. Thing of beauty is a joy forever, shows his loves for nature. Thus he enjoyed, as well as was inspired by the beauty of the sun, the moon, trees old and young and the lovely daffodils etc.

Summary

  Introduction of the Poet

   John Keats is one of the finest English poets. In spite of living only for twenty-six years, he contributed a lot to English Poetry. His poems are spirited and lively. His personal life was a tale of sorrow and bereavement, but his keen observant eye made him an admirer of nature, which is fully reflected in his poems.

Introduction of the Poem

   Endymion is poem of great beauty. In this poem John Keats has expressed his conception of beauty and has given a unique definition of beauty. According to Classical Mythology Endymion was a beautiful youth with whom moon Goddess fell in love and on whom she induced a perpetual sleep in order to kiss him without his knowledge.

Summary

   Endymion is a poem of great beauty. In this poem John Keats has expressed his conception of beauty and has given a unique definition of beauty. According to Classical Mythology Endymion was a beautiful youth with whom the moon goddess fell in love and on whom she induced a perpetual sleep in order to kiss him without his knowledge.

  In this poem the poet says that beauty is a constant source of joy. Its loveliness increases with the passage of time. Beauty is immortal. It appears in many shapes. The world is full of misery but the beautiful objects of nature such as the sun, the moon, old and new trees and flowers give us great pleasure and we forget our griefs.

   “Beauty moves away the pall from our dark spirits.”

   We also see glimpses of beauty of the grand places, which we imagine for the mighty dead. Similarly we derive great pleasure from lovely tales which we have read or heard. There are masterpieces of literature and Art which serve as source of eternal joy. Heroic deeds and lives of great men of the past too, are among these objects of beauty. It is the heights of keat’s imagination All these visions of beauty are like a fountain, which gives an immortal drink to our thirsty souls.

  “Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
  - Joubert

  Conclusion

   Beauty is truth, turth beauty that is all
   Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
  - John Keats

   John Keats is an ardent lover of beauty. This is his fundamental belief and it operates in all his poems. He is really in search of Truth. He wants to enjoy beauty to the best possible degree. Endymion is a magnificent poem, which reflects profound love of the poet for beauty as it is a constant source of spiritual joy. Therefore one must not forget:

   "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever"