ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Frances “Fanny” Brawne Lindon (9 August 1800 – 4 December 1865) is best known as the fiancée and muse to English Romantic poet John Keats.

Detailed explanation-2: -Keats and Brawne soon fell in love, and their star-crossed relationship, thwarted by Keats’s death in 1821, inspired many of Keats’s most well-known poems, including “Bright Star, ” “The Eve of St. Agnes, ” and “Ode to a Nightingale.”

Detailed explanation-3: -The poem, To Fanny, is a Shakespearean sonnet (which was and still is the best way of portraying ones’ love for the person/object being talked about in the poem) which Keats has dedicated to Fanny Brawne.

Detailed explanation-4: -I wish I was either in your arms full of faith or that a Thunder bolt would strike me. John Keats’s last known letter to his beloved Fanny Brawne was written in August of 1820. To think that this was perhaps the last letter he ever wrote to her is utterly heartbreaking.