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Day 1 Elimination of split infinitive For John Keats, using the senses to fully appreciate beauty lead to an understanding of ultimate truth. Capitalization.

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1 Day 1 Elimination of split infinitive For John Keats, using the senses to fully appreciate beauty lead to an understanding of ultimate truth. Capitalization of important words in a title Correction of misplaced modifier Subject and verb agreement The line Beauty is truth, truth is beauty sums up this understanding at the end of Ode On a Grecian urn.

2 Day 1 Elimination of split infinitive For John Keats, using the senses to appreciate beauty fully leads to an understanding of ultimate truth. Capitalization of important words in a title Correction of misplaced modifier 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.

3 Day 2 Revision of wordy sentence Pronoun agreement with antecedent Use of adverb to modify a verb 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.

4 Day 2 Revision of wordy sentence Pronoun agreement with antecedent Use of adverb to modify a verb John Keats took intense delight in objects around him, contemplating them so closely that he would seem to lose his own identity. it was Although Keats is considered a poet of sensuous beauty, the truth that behind his sensations mattered most to him. ______ ___

5 Day 3 Possessive form of name ending in -s Correction of commonly misspelled word Elimination of redundancy Combining sentences On First Looking into Chapmans Homer expresses Keats strong feeling of ecstacy upon reading Homers poetry. Ode on a Grecian Urn reveals a Keats haunted by the inevitable passing of beauty. So does To Autumn.

6 Day 3 Possessive form of name ending in s Correction of commonly misspelled word Elimination of redundancy Combining sentences strong feeling of On First Looking into Chapmans Homer expresses Keatss ecstasy upon reading Homers poetry. _______________ Ode on a Grecian Urn and "To Autumn" reveal a Keats haunted by the inevitable passing of beauty.

7 Day 4 Subject and verb agreement Use of end punctuation: question mark Elimination of commonly misused word In Ode to a Nightingale, a birds sweet song literally calls the speaker away from the cares of human life and into the essence of natural beauty. Is the speakers senses a bridge between the sad world he inhabits and the eternal world he imagines.

8 Day 4 Subject and verb agreement Use of end punctuation: question mark Elimination of commonly misused word literally In Ode to a Nightingale, a birds sweet song calls the speaker away from the cares of human life and into the essence of natural beauty. Are the speakers senses a bridge between the sad world he inhabits and the eternal world he imagines? ______

9 Day 5 Use of colon to introduce material that clarifies a preceding statement Elimination of faulty parallel structure Correction of run-on sentence 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.

10 Day 5 Use of colon to introduce material that clarifies a preceding statement Elimination of faulty parallel structure Correction of run-on sentence In spite of poverty, illness, and rejection by critics, Keats remained devoted to his poetry and the constant search 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.


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