John Keats (1795–1821)

JOHN KEATS (1795–1821)

A THING OF BEAUTY IS A A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVERJOY FOREVER

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LifeLife

TimeChanges Finite Love Decay- DeathDesperationDespondenceInhumanGloomyUnhealthy DarkPall of suffering, sorrow

NatureNatureEternalChangelessPerfectionBeautiful EnjoyableTruthHappinessBoundlessHeavenly

HUMAN LIFE is characterized by TIME = CHANGES:FINITE LOVEDECAYDEATH

Nature: Art = EternityChangelessHappinessBeauty=Truth

A thing of beauty.....A thing of beauty.....

Nature is an expression of BEAUTY

BEAUTY is TRUTH and TRUTH BEAUTY

Nature has an Aesthetic functionIs a balm on for all human problemsBrings in cheerCan be found all around us

Hence, man tries his best to connect with that, which provides him happiness even in his sorrow

An AssessmentAn AssessmentKeats belonged to a literary movement called Romanticism. ( wrote about the transience of life and contrasted it with the

permanence of nature)

"Keats's important poems are related to, or grow directly out of...inner conflicts."

ImageryImagery Drew his images from among all our physical sensations: sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell, and movement. Repeatedly combines different senses in one image, that is, he attributes the trait(s) of one sense to another, a practice called synaesthesia. His synaesthetic imagery performs two major functions in his poems:

creates a sensual effect, this combining of senses normally experienced as separate suggests an underlying unity of dissimilar happenings, the oneness of all forms of life.

“…. Fair musk- rose blooms;And such too is the grandeur of the doomsWe have imagined for the mighty dead…”

Contemporary criticismContemporary criticismThey • saw Keats as a sensual poet; • focused on his vivid, concrete imagery; • on his portrayal of the physical and the • passionate; • and on his preoccupation of the here

and now.

Keats today..Keats today..Keats is praised for his seriousness and thoughtfulness, for his dealing with difficult human conflicts and artistic issues, and for his impassioned mental pursuit of truth.... All in the face of tremendous physical and mental suffering.

They will explain themselves - as all poems should do without any

comment.

John Keats to his brother George, 1818

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