JOHN KEATS - the poet of Romanticism

Today we will know about John Keats who was born in 1795. He was very fortunate in his friendships but he was very unlucky in love. He was apprenticed to9 become a surgeon but the call of poesy was too strong to be resisted. And he left England & shifted to Italy in 1820.

  

John Keats was the most romantic poet of all romantic poets. Other romantic poets have some political or social comments in their poetry, but his poetry has no moral, no political or social significance.

The romantic poet always looks for an escape from the hard realities of life in the world of romance & beauty. But John Keats is the most escapist of them all. Like all romantics poets, he seeks an escape in the past. His imagination was caught by the Greeks and the glory of Middle Ages. Most of his poetry was inspired by the past.

 The themes of his poetry are romantic in their nature and most of his poetry is devoted to the quest of beauty, love, chivalry, adventures etc. Another strain that runs through his poetry is the fear of death and which finds beautiful expression in his sonnet.

 Like all romantic poets, John Keats always loved the nature & its varied beauties. He had a vivid sense of color.  Beauty was his religion.

One of the biggest thing of romantic poetry is about supernaturalism. His imagination was lured by the remote, shadowy and mysterious. John Keats dealt with the supernatural in his "La Belle Dame Sans Merci".

The brief span of John Keats's life fell within that is known as the age of romantic revival in the literature of English. He was a true romantic poet ever in English literature not that romantic dealing with the unrealities of life. He always tried to reconcile the world of imagination with the world of reality. Middleton Murry calls John Keats "A True Romantic". This great poet left his last breath on 23rd February in 1821 in Severns arms.

 

Major Odes of John Keats are as follows:

1. Ode to Nightingale

2. Ode to Psyche

3. Ode to Autumn

4. Ode on Indolence

5. Ode to Fancy etc. 

Minor Odes of John Keats are as follows:

1. Ode to Pan

2. Ode to Apollo

3. Ode to Sorrow

4. Ode to Maia

5. To Diana etc.

  

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