Jhon Keats as "ROMANTIC POET"

1. Department of English Bhavnagar university BHAVNAGAR

2. John KeatsAS A “ROMANTIC POET” PREPARED BY SANJAY AAL

3. John Keats as ROMANTIC POET John Keats as a romantic poet belonging to the younger generation of the romantic poets. He was a contemporary poet of Shelly and Byron. Romantic Trend has already been established by Wordsworth and Coleridge, before these younger poet came to write. John Keats kept himself aloof from the social and political movement, he was a purely a romantic poet. All the romantic poets like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelly, Byron etc have made poetry to serve their interests but Keats was a true poet having an ability to create beauty and joy for its own sake

4. Themes in the poems of Keats Keats was a master of poetry as far as theme are concerned. BEAUTY dominated in him as a master passion. “with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration” Major themes: BEAUTY and LOVE Two things, one is desire for beauty and other is curiosity are at the very centre of the art and temper of Keats.

5. The beauty in the works of Homer, Dante , Shakespeare and Milton raised his curiosity. He has seen beauty also in Autumn rather than in Spring. ”Ode to Autumn” The song of nightingale has been an object of beauty for him. “Ode to a Nightingale”

6. Wordsworth approached nature as spiritualized nature, Shelly intellectualized nature, Coleridge linked nature to the supernatural but Keats is content to render nature through the sense as Downer rightly pointed out, “with Keats no consideration of theology, humanity or metaphysics mingle with his love of nature” He had seen and appreciated nature through the five sense, in his one of the letter he observes, “The setting sun would always set me to right of if a sparrow were before my window, I take part in his existence and pick about the gravel”

7. Keats as romantic poet had also used supernatural in his poems. “The Eve of St. Mark” “The Eve of St. Agnes” “Lamia” “The Eve of St. Agnes” is based on a medieval superstition. Even on dominant feature in the poems of the romantic poets, was a powerful element of melancholy. Keeping biographical data in our consideration, at the very young age he lost his father and his mother got remarried, his most of the family members died because of the same disease which has left deep impact on his mind. This had aroused a feeling of melancholy which can be seen in his poem “Ode to melancholy” “Lamia”