Paper: 5Paper Name: The Romantic LiteraturePrepared by: Drashti MehtaRoll no:8PG Enrollment No: PG13101021Seat No: 11310009Sem: 2Email id: drashti.mehta.111993@gmail.comSubmitted to: Smt. S. B. Gardi, Department of English, maharaja Krishnakumarsinghji Bhavnagar University.Bhavnagar universityBhavnagar( Gujarat-India)

John Keats

• The most important poet of the Romantic age

Characteristics of his Poetry

Treatment of Nature

Romance

Sensuousness

Sensuousness

•“POETRY that gives pleasure to eyes and has no philosophical bent is said to be giving Sensuous Beauty.”

•Form, color, perfume, music.

Treatment of Nature

•Nature for Keats is a “Delicious Poetry Book.”•Loved Nature for it’s Sake, and for the glory and loveliness.

Romance

•He dreamt dreams in order to create such a dream world.•Legends of Greece•Subjects are classical, treatment of them is always Romantic.

Ode To Nightingale

• One Controlling Symbol

-Nightingale

The poemChanges

the Mood

Lyrical

Rich in Expressio

n

Positivity

Vitality

Gloomy picture

Human -life

A Sorrowful song

JoySorrow

Myth of Philomela

In the forest• With The

Nightingale• Dark but full of life• Healing Power• Supernatural

elements

Nymph-Dryad

Hippocrene-Fountain

Nightingale’s song• Song has carried him

away from the real world

• Stanzas-Despair, depression

• Song is immortal- always delights and comforts man.

World• Gloomy picture of

Human life• Escape• Strong wish to

retreat from the world

• Daily life full of burdens

• Modern life- Tame and Vulgar

Theme of Death• Keats’s brother• Young deaths • Appeals death to take him in

the intense delight

• Ended on muted realistic note.

• Beauty always be there to give man strength and comfort

Ending

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