As a passionate lover of poetry, more specific, romantic poetry, I always feel a sense of oneness with the world of the poets' fascination. Romantic poetry, for some of its key attributes such as scenic quality, images, mysticism, Absorption in the beauty of nature and life, the classic features and, above all, celebration of beauty and aesthetics --- a huge amount of appeal readers with highly sophisticated and demanding of all time. And surprisingly, this isImagery, sensual pleasure in nature, takes place pure artistic beauty and richness of the images of romantic poets who inspire us to continue in some way, even after so many years!
When we come to think of the Romantic poets, the name of John Keats, the most beautiful flower of the Romantic movement is, above all in our heads. Deep as one of the largest word in English poetry revered painter, presents his subtle and imaginative ways a fusion of different sensations, which has repeatedlyproduced musical effects, and this was more of a conscious artist.
The age of the literary influence of Keats and Keats:
The romance, as the story goes, was the time when much of Europe, shaken hard by ideas and ideologies of the French Revolution. Great poets of that time were strongly inspired by the personal and political freedom of the revolution, destroying the bonds of the artistic conventions of the 18 Century. Those were the days when theseThe ideas and ideals, "awakens the passion of youth, Wordsworth, Coleridge," "aroused the ire of Scott" and "like yeast working on Byron '... However, Keats was not from his contemporary poets and writers in the fact that There was the excitement and agitation collected in this round, the revolution represented directly distinguished in his poems. With these words, it is worth noting that some parts of the "Hyperion", "Fall of Hyperion" and "Endymion" to the testimony of that Keatswas coined by the political turmoil - but it is definitely not like the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, or pronounced. His poems, however, was the incarnation of his vision of beauty that he sees everywhere in nature, in art, in human acts of chivalry and the fascinating stories of ancient Greece. This was indeed the experience deeper and more intimate soul of Keats, which he expresses more strongly in his "Ode on a Grecian Urn":
"Beauty is truth,Truth beauty, "all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
Trace his poetic growth researchers, found that raised almost exclusively by the English poet. During the first part of his career, the influence of Edmund Spenser, in particular his "Faerie Queen", the awakening of his instrumental genius, imaginative, brooding love the sensual beauty, richness of imagination and the reaction to the stimulus of characteristic nature of Spenser's poems have been toechoed in the poetry of Keats'. In subsequent years, critics of the influence of Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, and also mentioned in his poems. While the influx of Shakespeare's words, allusions to find practical expression in 1817 the volume of his "Endymion," was also strongly influenced by the spirit and distinctive vocabulary of old English poet, influenced particularly the Renaissance. With these words, it is worth noting that the influence of Milton's "Paradise Lost" is clearly visible in his "Hyperion".On the same breath, the classical influence his poetry has also been the subject of intense research by scientists.
Critics say that today the poetry of Keats, the most important of all the romantic poets is the fact that his poetic genius flourished in the breeze and romantic classicism gained under the sun. True classicism of ancient Greece, which shows moderation classic feature is very present in his poems. What is more harmoniousmixed with the romantic fervor of his poetry, what a wonderful mix of classic romantic impulse and gravity. This statement is very true, if we consider his odes ripe to adopt, if we announce a sense of Keats's shape, purity and order. His odes to characterize all the spontaneity and freedom of imagination, the poetry of the Romantic period. For example, if in his "Ode to a Nightingale", the poet describes the singing of birds as the voice of eternity andexpressed desire to die in the hope of eternity with the merger, there is suggestive power of this romantic sensual pleasure of the poet is in the following lines:
"The same people who often / Charmed magic wings, opening on the foam / Of dangerous seas, in faery land left."
But suddenly, the poet remains with the lines:
"Forlorn! The word is like a bell / To toll me back from you only to myself" ... this is a perfect example of romantic passion fused withclassical sobriety. In all his mature odes, including "Ode to a Nightingale," Ode on a Grecian Urn, "" Ode to Melancholy "and" Ode to Psyche ', will launch the withdrawal of its overloaded condition of his earlier poems, and have a wealth of romantic, full of clarity of characterization is the Greek Hellenic literature.
The poetic theme of alienation and melancholy:
While the beauty and versatility have said the recurring themes in the mature odes Keats' critics havestressed that it was a bit '"haunted by the juxtaposition of joy and tight pain, pleasure and pain." Some point out that in their search for beauty, was an attitude of evasion, ignoring the reality of life. In his earlier poems, "Isabella", "Lamia," Eve of St. Agnes 'and others of his imagination certainly plays well with the romance of love, with elements of medieval, cruel, mysterious ladies,' a baby fairy ', the magic and charm of the magical world. However, this is characterized byhis sense of alienation as a creative thinker, a tone and a deeper meaning in his work later, ie, to assume his odes. During his journey as a poet, trying to harmonize what scientists say today, "the life of feeling in the life of thought." His desire for sensual enjoyment former mindless pleasures, as we have seen in his "Sleep and Poetry", is then replaced by a strong desire to be persistent and independent, the joy and beauty of life, is accompanied on thethrough the inevitable pain, despair and hopelessness of life. Therefore, the following lines:
"Joy whose hand is always on the lips / farewell offering." Keats knew the joy and beauty on this earth is transient, and this melancholy transience are very typical of his poems. Melancholy, he says, "alive with the beauty / beauty must die".
And 'stoic acceptance of this triumph of life over despair, he reached through a deep spiritual experience, as he in his "Ode to expressGrecian Urn, "" When the age of the waste generation / You are using different is our pain, "...
These lines can never come from the pen of an escape. For me it was a pure thinker, deeply interested in the mystery of life, which he uses as a poet, not as a political rebel or as a philosopher. Scholarly research to try to bring new perspectives of his poems still. As a reader I would be happy, romantic fervor and wealth of his imagesPoems for years to come!
Some useful resources helped me to write this article:
Muir, Kenneth (ed): John Keats: a revaluation (Liverpool 1957)
Ridley, MR: The Craft of John Keats
GM Bowra: The Romantic Imagination
Middleton Murry: Studies in Keats
Dr. S. Sen John Keats: Selected Poems with Oden, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion
