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Six Months in the Enchanting City, Rome: A Brief Travel Memoir

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 Six Months in the Enchanting City, Rome: A Brief Travel Memoir by Can Urla   ‘’I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, traveling, traveling, traveling’’ (Mitchell 0:21-0:27) started singing the Canadian singer Joni Mitchell, in the opening song of her timeless album Blue. While I listened to her calm voice, I walked through the gate of my plane that would take me to Italy on the 25th of January. A six-month journey was about to begin, and I was curious about what a foreign country would offer me during my stay. I was admitted to the Erasmus program of Yeditepe University in the spring term of 2022. In this essay, in a form of an experimental memoir, I intend to reflect on and illustrate my experiences in Rome as an Erasmus student. I will be dividing the essay into several sections to introduce historical, cultural, and literary aspects of Italy along with my comments. I sincerely hope that my work will be inspiring for those students who plan to apply to any kind of exchange progra
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Imagination, Beauty and Truth: John Keats

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Imagination , Beauty and Truth : John Keats’s ‘ Ode on a Grecian Urn ’ and Letters to George and Tom Keats and Benjamin Bailey   by Fatma Nur Korkmaz             John Keats , who was born on 31 October 1795 in London , and died on 23 February 1821 in Rome, was a very different kind of Romantic . In his short life, he had to witness the death of both his parents and his brother Tom . Keats suffered a lot as a young man. He experienced the emptiness of death , but through this misery , he found the beauty and essence of being . He fell in love with life ‘ again ’ and ‘ more than ever’. All shaped him as a great and unique poet and made him widely admired . He set many other artists a shining example , and it is no wonder that he became an indispensable name of world literature . He has over 250 surviving letters that typify his life and provide a window into his notions and poetry . In this regard , h
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