FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JOHN KEATS
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Here lies one whose name was writ in water’
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
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I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
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Detailed explanation-1: -To this day, his gravestone reads: This grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed, in the Bitterness of his Heart at the Malicious Power of his Enemies Desired these Words to be engraven on his Tomb Stone: Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water. 24 February 1821.
Detailed explanation-2: -“Here lies one whose name was writ in water, ” is the bitter description, etched at Keats’s dying request, the final sentiment from a poet who believed his words would fade into oblivion. When Keats died from tuberculosis aged 25, on 23 February 1821, the furniture in his room – now a museum – was burned.
Detailed explanation-3: -“His name was written in water” means that he was immediately forgotten; he came and went and didn’t do anything anyone thought worth remembering.
Detailed explanation-4: -This sonnet was published in Wilde’s essay “The Tomb of Keats” in Irish Monthly in 1887, which he wrote after visiting Keats’ grave.
Detailed explanation-5: -John Keats died in Rome aged twenty-five on February 23rd, 1821 and is buried at the Cemitero Acattolico-the so-called Protestant Cemetery in Rome (1). Two years later, in the early spring of 1823 his gravestone with epitaph was finally laid at his burial site.