2. Name : Dave Avni J.
Roll no : 03
Enrollment no : 2069108420190011
Class : M.A. Sem 2
Year : 2018-19
Submitted to : Smt. S.B.Gardi Department
of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University.
3. The pure Romantic Poet
Keats writes poetry for the sake of
poetry
He believes in art for art sake
His major concern is to give pleasure
He does not write poetry for any
propaganda
His chief concern is pleasure
Death, sorrow, love and nature are
signature of romantic poet
4. The Nature of Beauty
Keats states, in a letter of letter to
Richard woodhouse, that “the mere
yearning and fondness” he has for the
beautiful is the greatest impetus for his
poetry.
But the nature of beauty itself is
something Keats also explores in a few
poems.
Examples : Ode on melancholy and
Ode on a Grecian Urn
5. Romantic Notions of the
Female
Female figures are constant presence
in keat’s poetry : these range from
Psyche in “ode to Psyche”, to the
Belle Dame in “La Belle Dame Sans
Merci”, to the female figures of love,
ambition and poesy in “Ode on
Indolence”.
Female figures are often marked by a
dreamy otherworldiness.
6. Imagination
Keats believes the imagination to be
supreme
keat’s imagination is so powerful that is can
break the laws the people living in the real
world and the mixing the world of
imagination with the real world is important
to Keats because without imagination the
real world is confined to ugliness
So Keats loved the world of his imagination
so much because he saw it as just as valid
as the real world.
7. Negative capability
Keats’s notions of “ negative capability”
the most famous among his rare
contributions to literary theory.
Negative capability that is when man is
capable being in uncertanities,
mysteries, doubts, without any irritable
reaching after fact and reason.
Keats does not involve his personal
feeling in his poetry. He believes in
negative capability – the capabiilty of
being impersonal.
8. Hellenism
The word “hellenism” is derived from the
word ‘hellene” which means Greek. so,
Hellenism means Greek temperament
quality, culture, manner, Greek spirit and
Greek idioms.
Keats “Hellenism” on his love for Greek
arts, sculpture and mythology has made
him distinct in the gallery of romantics.
Hellenism was the soul of his poetry.
His attitude of melancholy is also
Hellenistic.
