A THING OF BEAUTY

NAME – CHINMAY RANJAN

CLASS – 12
SECTION – B
ROLL – 23
 INTRODUCTION OF THE POEM

This poem ‘A thing of beauty’ is an extract from Keats poem Endymion. In

this poem John Keats depicts that a thing of beauty is a joy forver, a joy
even in the mirth of diseases, sufferings and disappointments of life.
This joy of beauty comes to a men through his senses. He is excited by
the beauty of the external world and therefore have wonderful and
delightful experiences. The trees, flowers, streams, mountains, sun and
moon are all the objects of beauty and they provide joy forever.
 STANZA – 1

A thing of beauty is joy forever

1. A thing of beauty provides eternal and everlasting joy.

2. It leaves an indelible print on our mind and we relieve the joyful experience
whenever we think about it.

Its loveliness increases

3. Joy multiplies with every beautiful thought.

4. The loveliness of a beautiful thing increases.
 It will never pass into nothingness

1. The joy a beautiful thing provides is eternal.

2. The imprint it leaves on our mind in indelible.

But will keep a bower quiet for us

3. The poet feels that a thing of beauty can never fade into nothingness.
4. It will store for us a quiet bower full of sweet dreams.
5. Beauty will provide us with peaceful and serene experiences.

Bower – A pleasant in the shade under a tree

 And a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and
quite breathing

1. The joy beauty gives us is akin to the joy of a blissful sleep full of
pleasant dreams.
2. Beautiful sights act like nutrition for relax us.
3. It will drive away aggression and restlessness.
4. Peaceful and serene experiences will be enjoyed.
 STANZA – 2

Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing a

flowery band to bind us to the earth

1. Life on earth would be a pain without beauty around us.

2. The poet feels that every morning we weave a wreath of flowers which
bind us to the earth and make us live our life.

Spite of despondence

3. Life is a struggle where man often suffers pain and loss of hope.
4. The expression refers to the sufferings and hopelessness of man
which he experiences at various junctures of life.
 Of the inhuman dearth of noble natures

1. Man is selfish and self centered by nature.

2. There are few noble people who have risen above their petty differences
and show magnanimity and generosity.
3. Oh this earth, there is surely a dearth or storage of such noble souls.

Of the gloomy days

4. Life is a struggle for success.

5. Our path towards success gets abstracted by the deceit and selfishness of
our colleague.
6. We become sad and gloomy when we have bad experiences in our lives.
 Of all the unhealthy and o’er darkened ways made for our
searching

1. The unhealthy and over darkened ways refers to the trials and tribulations in
this journey of life.
2. Lots of faith and disappointment are the result of our own making.
3. Beautiful things make life worthwhile as they lift the veil of gloom, finding
way for optimism and hope.

Yes, in spite of all

4. The expression refers to all the pessimistic and the negative thoughts that
abstract our way to happiness.
5. In spite of feelings of hopelessness and gloom we are able to find our
happiness in the beautiful objects of nature.
 STANZA - 3

Some shapes of beauty moves away the pall from our dark
spirits

1. Beauty, in any shape or form, helps in driving away the sadness and despair
from our life.
2. Beauty gives joy and happiness to the human heart and take away sadness and
gloom.

Such the sun, the moon

3. Even simple objects of nature show beauty at its best.

4. We can appreciate simple and serene beauty in the sun, the moon, the trees….
5. Beauties of nature have on elixir of life.
 Tress old and young sprouting a shady boon for simple sheep

1. The poet sees the tree whether, young or old, as a symbol of protection.
2. Tress protect us from heat, intensive light of sun, rain - they bless us with
shade.
3. Sheep is a symbol of innocence and serene beauty.
4. The poet has made specific reference to the sheep as symbols of divine
beauty(Jesus Christ was a shepherd – his sheep his flowers).

And such are daffodils with the green world the live in

5. Meadows and pastures are beautiful and support life.

6. True joy and can be enjoyed by looking at daffodils in these lush green
meadows and pastures.
 And clear rills that for themselves a cooling covert
make gainst the hot season

1. Clear rills refers to the rivers and streams.

2. Their beautiful sights give a cooling effect which provides respite in summers.

The mid forest brake, rich with a sprinkling of fair

musk rose blooms

3. The poet enjoys nature’s beauty in the thick forest undergrowth.

4. The mid forest is brimming with blooming musk roses.
 STANZA – 4

And such too is the grandeur of the dooms

1. Growth and decay march hand in hand they are two vital aspects of life.
2. The poet sees beauty in decay and death of these beautiful things.
3. The lines beautifully brings to light contrasting aspects of life – growth and
decay.

We have imagined for the mighty dead

4. The mighty dead refers to those great warriors who glorified death by em
bracing it.
5. The poet feels the beauty is not limited to birth and growth but can also be
seen in magnificent death.
 All lovely tales that we have heard or read

1. Great men leave an everlasting source of motivation to all those who read or
hear about them.
2. A glorified and magnificent past is never forgotten, and it gets recorded in the
leaves of history.

An endless fountain of immortal drink

3. Beauty, in all aspects, whether in growth or decay, is a perennial source of

motivation.
4. It is like an endless fountain whose drink gives strength and motivate us.
 Pouring unto us from the heaven’s brink

1. Beauty pours upon us from the heaven.

2. Beauty is a divine gift, it is eternal and everlasting.
3. It is an unending source of joy and happiness.