O, what can ail thee, knight at arms, Alone and palely loitering; The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing. O, what can ail thee, knight at arms, So haggard and so woe-begone?

Both are by the sculptor Frank Dobson and were unveiled on 10th June 1954 by John Masefield, Poet Laureate. A memorial had first been proposed for Keats in 1939 but a decision was deferred due to the ...

Life is short. One poet knew that only too well. He believed you should try and live as intensely as possible. His name was John Keats. We don't really know a great deal about the poem.

You can discover a lot about a poem by comparing it to one by another author that deals with a similar subject. You could compare features such as theme, form, structure, rhythm, language and ...

28th January, 1821: Drawn to keep me awake - a deadly sweat was on him all this night' The above inscription appears beneath a sketch of the great English romantic poet, John Keats, on his death ...

The power of poetry is such that it can make us laugh, make us cry, or take us into complete silence - in a matter of seconds. And each verse can mean something completely different from one ...