Keats wrote Isabella because he wanted to produce a commercial success, :: glish Literature

Keats wrote Isabella because he wanted to produce a commercial success, however he also melodic theme it was too smokeable, i.e. that critics would jest at it. What do you consider to be the positive aspects of the poem?Why great power it also have been unprotected to criticism?Isabella or the pot of basil was written soon afterwards Keats hadattended lectures by a critic. The critic had suggested that a poetic description of the 14th century works by the Italian writer Boccacciocould non fail in the present day. Keatss poem is establish upon theItalians story called the Decameron in which Isabellas lovestrengthens due to her loss of her original love, Lorenzo, who herbr other(a)s were unable to accept into the family and so disposed of him.The fact that the poem is establish upon someone elses story whitethorn have gotthe poem ridiculed by critics because it was non original also Keatswas not yet a soundly established poet (as he was from a humblebackground) and so he mig ht have been ridiculed for using otherauthors hard work just for advantage and due to the fact that someoneelse thought it would make money Keats may have been scorned as hecouldnt come up with his own inventions. Stealing ideas fromanother may also have caused bothersome at Keatss ability to produce hisown works.Another curtilage that Keats believed that his work was too smokeable,in other words his poem would go up in smoke too easily, because thecritics may have thought that Keats would go to any lengths for fame,even taking a well cognize fairy tale story and turning it into a money maker for himself. In a letter written to his friend in October 1818Keats revealed that fame was not on his agenda as he described himselfas a camelion poet, camelion has connotations of something whichtakes on the colours of its background in order to camouflage, inother words, Keats was not interested in the conventional things ofpoetry, he wanted to be invisible to others, but his work to be s een.Keats did not want fame, but a reason for him believing his work wouldbe subject to ridicule is that others may have believed he was onlywriting for fame.When Keats was preparing for the publication of Isabella he condemnedits inexperience simplicity and mawkishness in terms of its expression and the storyline, Keats may have just been covering forhimself and his reputation in slipperiness of ridicule, or his writing skillshad improved during the eighteen months prior to its publication, and