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JOHN KEATS AS A ROMANTIC POET
Name- Hariyani Kishan.RClass- M.A.Semester- 2Enrolment Number- PG15101021Email id- [email protected] no- 5 (Romantic Literature)Submitted to- Smt. S B GardiDepartment of EnglishMaharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.
Introduction
John Keats was born on 31 October 1795 to Thomas and Frances Jenin's 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.
Poets of the Romantic Age:
Byron S. T. Coleridge
P.B. Shelly WilliamWordworths
John Keats
John Keats Was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets along with Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Poetry characterised by sensual imagery most notably in the series of Odes.
In May 1816, his sonnet “O Solitude” appeared first time in print version in the magazine The Examiner.
Defined poems, in effect, along with several other poets of his period.
Ode On a Grecian urn
Ode To Nightingal
Ode to Autumn
Ode to psyche
Important Elements of Keats's poetry
Interest in lyric, the personal. Interest in the transcendent, that which is beyond human understanding.
Interest in the transcendent as it relates to nature. Interest in a glorified or romanticized past both with the
medieval and the classical. Interest in the role of the poet as well as in the creation of
his art. Interest in imagination, which intuitively connects with
nature and the transcendent and develops over time.
Keats Was a foremost romantic dreamer. Everything seemed beautiful under his pen, even the rockiest and most sorrowful objects.
Love and Death were desires for him.
Wrote only for five years.
Does not generally write about Nature, but uses it as a device to make his poetry romantic and gentle.
Works are on love and beauty but thoroughly are mixed with his feelings of depression.
He was not superficial. He sought out beauty, but not the beauty of gold and diamonds. For him, love and nature were beautiful, stars were beautiful. Death was sublime.
Was influenced by ancient mythology; texts by Homer, Dante, Virgil, Shakespeare etc; fellow romantic poets Shelley and Byron; Latin and classical poet form.
Wrote many “epic story poems” such as Hyperion and Endymion.
Ode on a Grecian Urn Poets of Romantic Movement gave priority
to the topics of lower class, common people and countryside unlike the Neo-classical poets, focusing on difficult and abstract topics.
Poets of this age followed blank verse and prosaic style.
Keats composed poems on Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to the Nightingale, etc. Odes and lyrics are the characteristics of Romantic poets.
There is effect of Hellenism in his poems but his diction is countryside and natural. They come out with the overflow of ideas.
His following of beauty in all forms show his love for nature. It reminds the slogan of “Return to Nature”.
Poems are enjoyed with great verve because of his love for beauty whom he calls Beauty is truth and truth beauty.
Keats' Theory of Negative Capability
'The concept of Negative Capability is the ability to contemplate the world without the desire to try and reconcile contradictory aspects or fit it into closed and rational systems.‘
“Negative Capability” — the willingness to embrace uncertainty, live with mystery, and make peace with ambiguity.
