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    The poem describes how beauty in nature can lift one's spirit and take away sadness. It discusses how things like the sun, moon, trees, flowers, and streams are beautiful parts of nature that refresh us. It also mentions tales of brave soldiers who sacrificed their lives. While worldly attachments bind us to earthly things, beauty offers us eternal joy and inspiration to live on despite hardship.

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    The poem describes how beauty in nature can lift one's spirit and take away sadness. It discusses how things like the sun, moon, trees, flowers, and streams are beautiful parts of nature that refresh us. It also mentions tales of brave soldiers who sacrificed their lives. While worldly attachments bind us to earthly things, beauty offers us eternal joy and inspiration to live on despite hardship.

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    A Thing of Beauty

    - John Keats
    A Thing of Beauty is a poem written by the famous romantic
    poet, John Keats. The poem tells about how nature and its
    wonder mesmerize us and take away all the sorrow that
    surrounds us from time to time. Also If we notice, Endymion
    is a poem by, John Keats, first published in 1818. It begins
    with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy forever".
    The poet says that a beautiful thing is a source of endless joy.
    It has eternal beauty which never fades away. A beautiful
    thing is like a shady shelter which gives us a sleep full of
    sweet dreams, good health and relaxation.
    Our attachments to the Earthly things
    are like a flowery wreath. They are traps
    which bind us to the materialistic things
    and keeps us away from eternal
    happiness. The Earth is full of hatred,
    greed and negativity. According to the
    poet, the gloom and sadness caused by
    this negativity fades away with the
    positive vibes of the beautiful things that
    surround us.
    The poet lists out some of the beautiful
    things that surround us. As the saying
    goes -"Beauty lies in the eyes of the
    beholder. He says that the numerous
    creations of God like the Sun which gives
    us energy, the moon’s beauty, the trees
    which give us shade are the natural
    beauties around us. The various animals
    like the sheep that surround us make our
    world lively.
    The pretty flowers like daffodils make the
    world green and lively. The flowing streams of
    water cool and refresh us in the hot summer
    season. The forests which are full of the pretty
    musk rose flowers are a beautiful sight to the
    eye. All these are the things of beauty. Also, the
    stories of the brave soldiers who laid their lives
    to protect their people are beautiful and
    inspiring. These beautiful things are like a
    fountain of immortality bestowed upon us by
    God. They inspire us to live on and maintain
    our faith in goodness.
    List the things of beauty mentioned in the poem.

    •The Sun
    •The Moon
    •Shady trees
    •Beautiful daffodil flowers
    •Streams of water
    •Dense green bushes of forest ferns where fragrant musk
    roses grow
    •Tales of heroic men who sacrifice their lives
    List the things that cause suffering and pain.

    • Desire to offend others


    • Hopelessness
    • Lack of noble men
    • Bad health
    • Unhappiness
    • Gloom
    • Darkness
    Literary devices
    rhyme scheme: aabbc (forever, never, keep, sleep,
    breathing)
    Alliteration: Use of consonant sound at the start of
    two words which are close in series (Sleep-Sweet)
    Metaphor: bower Quiet (calmness of the bower is
    compared to the calming effect of a beautiful thing)
    Literary devices
    Anaphora: Use of same word in two consecutive lines
    (of noble natures- Of all the unhealthy)
    Alliteration: Use of consonant sound at the start of two
    words which are close in series (‘b’ in Band Bind, ‘n’ in
    Noble nature, ‘s’ in some shape).    
    Metaphor: wreathing a flowery band (the beautiful
    things of our life bind us to the earth)       
    Imagery: creating a sensory effect of beautiful things
    lined up in a string ( A flowery band to bind us)
    Literary devices
    Alliteration: Use of consonant sound at the start of two
    words which are close in series (‘s’ in Sprouting Shady,
    Simple sheep, ‘c’ in cooling covert)
    Imagery: Trees giving shade (sprouting shady boon), growing
    process of daffodils (daffodils with the green world they live
    in), Clean river streams (Clear rills)
    Antithesis: opposite words placed together (old and young)
    Literary devices
    Alliteration: Use of consonant sound at the start of two
    words which are close in series (‘h’ in have heard)
    Metaphor: Immortal drinks ( beautiful objects of nature are
    forever like a never ending portion of a drink)
    Rhyme: Rhyme scheme is used in every stanza of the poem
    (forever; never, keep; sleep, dead; read etc.)
    Imagery: Bushes full of musk roses (sprinkling of fair musk
    rose blooms), books describing valor of fighters
    (grandeur-..mighty dead), god providing us with best things
    (pouring from the heaven’s brink)

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