Dr Octavia Cox | ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever’—John Keats ENDYMION poem analysis—form, rhyme, & open couplets @DrOctaviaCox | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
Reading & analysis of the opening of John Keats’s poem ‘Endymion: A Poetic Romance’ (1818), which begins “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever”. What is ‘Beauty’ for John Keats? How does John Keats use the form of rhymed open couplets (& one closed couplet) to convey a sense of excess & fullness (that “loveliness increases”)? And does the end of the verse paragraph in fact undermine the notion that a thing of beauty is a joy forever whose loveliness is endlessly increasing? Romanticism was preoccupied with beauty being a bulwark against pensive moods, as well as with breaking open the closed heroic couplet form that had dominated in 18th century poetry, such as in the poems of Alexander Pope. The lecture provides a line-by-line reading of the opening verse paragraph of Endymion, outlines how John Keats plays with form, rhyme, & open, closed & heroic couplets, and explains why a thing of beauty is a joy forever (with a little help from William Wordsworth’s daffodils poem, ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’). Analysis of John Keats’s poem Endymion.

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