Question

Go through the poem again and write in your notebook an appreciation of the poem in the paragraph format.

Answer 1

The poem, 'A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever' by John Keats is a part of the poem 'Endymion' composed just three years before he died at the young age of 25. The poem is written in rhyming couplets, and thus the rhyme scheme followed throughout in the poem is 'aabbcc'. The figures of speech used to enrich the poem include Alliteration, Anticlimax, Antithesis, Assonance, Climax, Consonance, Epigram, Metaphor, Personification and Repetition. An example of Antithesis is "Such the sun, the moon, trees old and young" where the contrasting ideas such as 'old' and 'young' are used in the same line to include all forms of living things on the earth. The central idea conveyed through the poem is that the loveliness in the things of Beauty gives us unending pleasure, and they will never cease to exist. One can keep relishing their sweetness irrespective of the limits of time and space. It depicts eternal hope because it frees the objects of beauty from any date of expiry. The best thing about beautiful things is that they help a person relax and give him/her a deep sense of satisfaction even in the worst of times.