Thinking Activity on John Keats: Finding out approaches to Death in literature.

Hello Readers,

Welcome to my blog. Basically the blog about the different types of ideas of Death it has taken by authors in their literary works. Some has different kind of perspective to see the Death and so some how differentiate the idea of the Death, although special kind of fascination towards death. John keats who also used the Death as a subject and main concept of his poem.

So here, I given the some examples of other writers or fascination and they used subject of death in their literary works.

In poetry, Drama, fiction death is seen as a symbol and theme that provides wilder ideas and way to  other  themes ranging from justice to rites of passage to grief. Extensively, we have the question that why Death is used as a theme in literature.

In ancient literature, the theme of death is seen regularly. In Gilgamesh, the ancient epic of Mesopotamia, death is clearly illustrated through relationships, responding to the deaths of loved ones, and war. Once Gilgamesh comes to love Enkidu, he dies, and the reader is left with Gilgamesh’s thoughts and response to his friend’s death. In ancient Greek mythology, the Trojan War provided a framework for a myriad of stories, including Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey; both stories recount numerous lengthy battles and gruesome scenes of death. Later, Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides, the three great Greek tragedians, created death-driven plays, such as Sophocles’ Oedipus The King and Antigone, which includes patricide, suicide, and fratricide.