• English Literature- Classical & Modern Poetry

• Paradise Lost, Book I to Book III
• The Rape of The Lock
• The Ancient Mariner
• Metaphysical Poetry of John Donne
• Poetry of Philip Larkin
• Poetry of Surrey and Wyatt Poetry
• Songs of Innocence And Experience
• Coleridge As a Romantic Poet
• John Keats as a Romantic Poet
• Poetry of Ted Hughes
• Mystic Poetry of William Blake
• Leisure by William Davies
• Tartary by De La Mare
• New Year Resolutions by Elizabeth Sewell
• Woman Work by Maya Anagelou
• Rebel by D.J Enright
• The Huntsman, A folklore
• Solitary Reaper, William wordsworth
• Ariel by Sylvia Plath
• After Apple Picking Summary
• After Apple Picking Themes
• Because I Could Not Stop for Death
• Departure and Arrival by T.S Eliot
• Kubla Khan by S.T Coleridge
• Lights out
• Hawk's Monologue by Ted Hughes
• When I have Fears by John Keats
• Ode to Grecian Urn Summary
• Ode to Grecian Urn Critical Appreciation
• Ode to Autumn by John Keats
• Ode to A Nightingale by John Keats
• IF by Rudyard Kipling
• Daffodils by Wordsworth
• The Second Coming: Yeats
• One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
• All The World's a Stage

John Keats As a Romantic Poet- Part II

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"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;"

In September, 1819, Keats wrote a letter to Reynolds from Winchester describing the beauty of the fields and his intention of writing a poem on the beautiful landscape. He says "how beautiful the season is now...".

The Concept of Negative Capability and John Keats:

As a true romantic, Keats insists upon the neutrality of the poet. He believes that a poet must write without any prejudice and the ability to experience a phenomena free from the bounds of "theory of knowledge" or presupposed conceptions and beliefs. Keats captures the beauty of Nature without being influenced by his prior knowledge. For example, autumn is considered the season of approaching gloom in the shape of winter but the poet is fascinated with the beauty of the rich and striking scenery about him and is forced to compose a poem on the beauty of autumn against prior and established knowledge.

Escapist views of John Keats:

All romantic poets are escapists in essence. They tend to shun reality in the favor of the ideal. They lose themselves into the realm of poetic fancy and imagination. For example in "Ode to Nightingale", Keats overpowers the doubts of his mind and says to the nightingale:

"Away! away! for I will fly to thee"

The escapist idealism forces the poet to leave the painful realism and enter into ideal life of nightingale. The poet wants to disappear with the joyous nightingale. He wishes to "fade far away, dissolve and quite forget" the human miseries and pains; the nightingale has never tasted of such "weariness" and sings.

Read Part I...