- The document discusses John Keats and his famous odes. It provides biographical details about Keats' life and education. - It analyzes several of Keats' major odes, including Ode to Psyche, Ode to Indolence, and Ode to a Nightingale. For each ode, it summarizes the themes, symbols, and Keats' exploration of imagination, nature, and mortality. - In conclusion, it quotes another author praising Keats as the perfect Romantic and discusses how Keats expressed inner beauty and truth through his poetry in his own unique voice.

1. Topic:- Keats Odes
- Presented by:-
Hinaba Sarvaiya.

2. M.A. Sem- 01
Paper no- 103 Literature Of The Romantics
Roll number- 13
Enrollment number- 4069206420210032
Email id- hinabasarvaiya1711@gmail.com
Submitted by- S.B. Gardi Department of English,MKBU.

3. Who is Keats’s:-
• Born on October 31, 1795,London.
• Keats was the eldest of four surviving children; his younger siblings
were George, Tom and Frances Mary.
• In 1803 he begun his studies at a small school in Enfield, England, run
by a man named John Clark.
• In April, 1804, when he was eight his father died.
• In March 1810, When he was 14 his mother died of Tuberculosis.
• In 1816 Keats become a Licensed apothecory but he never practiced
his profession, deciding instead to write Poetry.

4. • He wrote some minor Odes.
• “Ode to Psyche”
• “Ode on Indolence”
• “Ode On a Greacian Urn”
• “Ode to a Nightingale”
• “Ode to Autumn”
• In 1819, he also started to read Wordsworth with whom, like the
other younger Romantics, he developed a Love-hate relationship.

5. Keats’Odes:-
• Odes do not tell a Single story.
• There are no unifying characters.
• But there are numerous suggestive interrelations.
• Keats unmistakable consciousnee unites them.
• A personal, psychological progress can be seen here.
• A movement from an impassioned longing for escape (nightingale) to
calm fulfillment (Melancholy &Autumn).

6. Ode to psyche:-
• An important departure from Keats’s early poems, which frequently
describe an escape into the pleasant realms of one’s imagination.
• Keats’ interpretation of cupid and psyche myth.
• The poem celebrates the imagination’s awesome and mysterious
creative power.
“And pardon that thy secrets should be mysteries
Into your own shell- like ear”
Speaker say that please forgive me for singing songs about your
mysteries into your own shell- like ear.

7. • The poem uses the power of the imagination to prise the power of
the imagination, building an inner temple to the goddess of the inner
life.
• Speaker encounters psyche, he’s travelling through his own
imagination.

8. Ode to Indolence:-
• The poem relies on a first person narration.
• Break from the structure of the classical form.
• A morning spent in idleness.
• Three figures are presented Amibition, Love and Poesy.
• Contemplation on life and art.
• The poet realises that he cannot have all three in his life.

9. Ode to a Nightingale:-
• Describes Keats experience of Negative Capability.
“when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts,
without any irritable reaching after fact and reason”.
• The poem present conflict between Reality and romantic ideal of
uniting with nature.
•The nightingale described experience a type of death but does not
actually die. the songbird is capable of living through its song, which is
a fate that human cannot expect.
• end of the poem pleasure cannot be last, death is part of life.

10. • Swinburne wrote in the encyclopedia, Britannica that “the ode to
a Nightingale”, is one of the final masterpieces of human work in
all time and for all ages”.

11. Conclusion:-
According to Rene Wellek..
“Keats has his own personal voice
Which should not be drowned in
the general romantic chorus”
John Keats was not only the last but also the most perfect of the
Romanticism. He was a great Worshipper of beauty. He only wrote
what was in his own heart. He had shown beauty and truth in his
Poetry.

12. Reference:-
• Long, William J. English literature.Delhi; AITBS publishers; India, 2019.
• Dr. Kalyani Vallath, Vallathtotalenglishsolutions.