Hyperion: Critique and Analysis/
Major Themes/ Human Sufferings in Hyperion/ Discuss “the agonies, the strife of
human hearts.” In Hyperion
Hyperion" is an uncompleted
epic poem by John Keats. It is based on the Titans and Olympians, and
tells of the despair of the former after their fall to the latter. Keats wrote
the poem for about one year, when he gave it up as having "too many
Miltonic inversions." He was also nursing his brother Tom, who died in
January of 1819 of tuberculosis. Hyperion relates the fall of the Titans,
elemental energies of the world, and their replacement by newer gods. The Olympiangods,
having superior knowledge and an understanding of humanity's suffering, are the
natural successors to the Titans.
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