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Paper: 5Paper Name: The Romantic LiteraturePrepared by: Drashti MehtaRoll no:8PG Enrollment No: PG13101021Seat No: 11310009Sem: 2Email id: [email protected] 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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