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Art and Beauty in Keats’s Ode
Vanita p. TadhaMA Sem :- 2 Roll No. :- 30
Course No. 5 :- The Romantic LiteratureEnrolment No. :- Pg14101029
Email ID : - [email protected] to :- Department of English,
M. K.B. University
John Keats John Keats lived a short time
between the 18th and the 19th century.
He grew as a source of inspirational to many English 19th century poets, becoming the idol of such writers.
Keats’s life was imbued with family tragedies and professional setbacks.
He himself was killed by tuberculosis at the early age of twenty – five.
Keats’s Ode
The odes were Keats effort to discuss the relationship between the soul, eternity, nature, and art, which he was
busy contemplating thought.
Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to Nightingale Ode to Psyche Ode on Autumn
Why he chosen Art & Beauty? Keats was aware of other work on classical Greek.His idea of using classical Greek art as metaphor
originated in his reading of Haydon’s Examiner articles of 2 May and 9 May 1819.
Central idea superiority of art.A work of art is expression of beauty.Art has an aesthetic and moral functionIt provides comfort and solace to many generation.
Art and Beauty in Grecian Urn This poem discusses art and art’s audience, and the
relation between art and humanity. The figures are supposed to be beautiful.
He tells the youth that through he can never kiss his lovers because he is frozen in time, he should not grieve because her beauty will never fade.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” – that is allYe known on earth, and all ye need to know.
This ode contains the most discussed two lines in all of Keats poetry
The lack of definite voice of the urn causes the reader who is really speaking these words, whom they are speaking, and what is mean by the words.
Art and Beauty in Nightingale Keats hearing the song
connected with Nightingale
He relied on depiction of natural music and appeal to auditory sensation while ignoring the visual.
The ‘’Art’’ of Nightingale end endlessly changeable.
“Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes”
Art and Beauty in psyche Psyche's wings in the ode ("thy
lucent fans") are accounted for by the fact that, in Greek, psyche is the word for soul, and the soul was often represented as having the wings of a butterfly.
He says that while wandering through the forest that , “two fair creatures” lying side by side in the grass, beneath a “whisp’ring roof” of leaves, surrounded by flowers.
The thought resemble the beauty of nature and tended by “the gardener Fancy,” or imagination.
Art and Beauty in Autumn
In both its form and descriptive surface, “to autumn” is one of the speakers experience of beauty refers to earlier ode.
Artistic creation
The development the speaker so strongly resisted in ‘indolence’ is at lost complete.
Thank you…
