Day 1
For John Keats, using the senses to fully appreciate beauty lead to an
understanding of ultimate truth.
The line “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty” sums up this understanding at
the end of “Ode On a Grecian urn.”
Correction of misplaced modifier
Elimination of split infinitive
Subject and verb agreement
Capitalization of important words in a title
Day 1
For John Keats, using the senses to appreciate beauty fully leads to an
understanding of ultimate truth.
Elimination of split infinitive
Subject and verb agreement
The line “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty” at the end of “Ode on a Grecian
Urn” sums up this understanding.
Capitalization of important words in a title
Correction of misplaced modifier
Day 2
John Keats took intense delight in objects around him, contemplating
it so close that he would seem to lose his own identity.
Although Keats is considered a poet of sensuous beauty, it was the
truth behind his sensations that mattered most to him.
Use of adverb to modify a verb
Pronoun agreement with antecedent
Revision of wordy sentence
Day 2
John Keats took intense delight in objects around him, contemplating
them so closely that he would seem to lose his own identity.
Pronoun agreement with antecedent
Use of adverb to modify a verb
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it was
Although Keats is considered a poet of sensuous beauty, the truth
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that
behind his sensations mattered most to him.
Revision of wordy sentence
Day 3
“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” expresses Keats’ strong feeling of
ecstacy upon reading Homer’s poetry.
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” reveals a Keats haunted by the inevitable passing
of beauty. So does “To Autumn.”
Possessive form of name ending in -s
Correction of commonly misspelled word
Combining sentences
Elimination of redundancy
Day 3
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strong feeling of
“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” expresses Keats’s ecstasy upon
reading Homer’s poetry.
Elimination of redundancy
Possessive form of name ending in s
Correction of commonly misspelled word
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” and "To Autumn" reveal a Keats haunted by the
inevitable passing of beauty.
Combining sentences
Day 4
In “Ode to a Nightingale,” a bird’s sweet song literally calls the speaker
away from the cares of human life and into the essence of natural beauty.
Is the speaker’s senses a bridge between the sad world he inhabits and the
eternal world he imagines.
Subject and verb agreement
Use of end punctuation: question mark
Elimination of commonly misused word
Day 4
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literally
In “Ode to a Nightingale,” a bird’s sweet song calls the speaker away from
the cares of human life and into the essence of natural beauty.
Elimination of commonly misused word
Are the speaker’s senses a bridge between the sad world he inhabits and
the eternal world he imagines?
Subject and verb agreement
Use of end punctuation: question mark
Day 5
In spite of poverty, illness, and being rejected by critics, Keats
remained devoted to his poetry and constantly searching for truth in
personal experience.
Tragically, Keats died at age twenty-five no name appears on his
tombstone, only this epitaph, “Here lies one whose name was writ in
water.”
Correction of run-on sentence
Use of colon to introduce material that clarifies a preceding statement
Elimination of faulty parallel structure
Day 5
In spite of poverty, illness, and rejection by critics, Keats remained
devoted to his poetry and the constant search for truth in personal
experience.
Elimination of faulty parallel structure
Tragically, Keats died at age twenty-five. No name appears on his
tombstone, only this epitaph: “Here lies one whose name was writ in
water.”
Use of colon to introduce material that clarifies a preceding statement
Correction of run-on sentence