john keats as a nature poet
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John Keats as a Nature Poet
Name: Maru Janak JRoll No: 22
Paper: (5) Romentic LiteratureM.A: sem-2
Email: [email protected] To: Department of English
Bhavnagar University
John Keats was born on 31 October 1795 to Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats in Central London.Keats was prolific in his short writing life, and is now one of the most studied and admired of British poets.
He was a second generation Romantic poet.His first surviving poem ’An Imitation of Spenser’s comes in 1814, when Keats was nineteen.A leading magazine ‘The Examiner’ first published his work ‘Sonnet O Solitude’.
Keats was a nature poet and also Romentic poet. Nature was one of the Greatest sources of inspiration for keats.Keats believed that ‘heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter’, I.e.: beauty imagined is superior beauty perceived, since the senses are more limited than the imagination and its creative power.Nature was a major theme among the Romantics, but keats turned natural objects in to poetic image.
Keats writes about nature in two ways:
1.He tells us about the beauty in nature.2.He tells us about the joy and relief nature can bring.
John Keats poems:
The Think of Beauty Ode to a Nightingale Odes on a Grecian urnTo Autumn
In his poetryKeats's love for nature is purely sensuous and he loves the beautiful sights and scenes of nature for their own sake.He does not try to find any hidden meaning in nature and he describes it as he sees it.Keats found in nature endless sources of poetic inspiration, and he described the natural world with precision and care.
In the “ ode to nightingale”, Nightingale and he becomes one, his soul sings in the bird which is the symbols of joy.
The Autumn
It is the final work in the group of poems of keats 1819 odes. It is a transitional poem that celebrates not only the richness and poignancy of the season but also the beauty of Decay. He was inspired to write the poem following a walk near Winchester one autumnal evening.The work marks the end of his poetic career as he needed to earn money and could no longer devote himself to the lifestyle of a poet.
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