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    John Keats Performer - Culture & Literature

    Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella,


    Margaret Layton © 2012
    John Keats

    1. Life

    • Born in London in 1795.


    • Well educated at a school in
    Enfield.
    • Early passion for reading
    poetry.
    • Family plagued by death.
    • Doomed love story with
    Fanny Brawne owing to his
    poverty and bad health
    • Own illness tubercolisis.
    • Died in 1821 in Rome.
    A portrait of John Keats,
    1817

    Performer - Culture & Literature


    John Keats

    2. Main works
    1918 Endymion, a long, mythological poem

    The Eve of St Agnes, characterised


    by romantic features.

    La Belle Dame Sans Merci, a ballad


    which displayed a taste for medieval
    themes and form.
    The great Odes.

    1920 Hyperion, begun in 1818 and


    published in 1820.

    Performer - Culture & Literature


    John Keats

    3. His poetry

    • His lyrical poems are not fragments of a spiritual


    autobiography, like the lyrics of Shelley and Byron.

    • A personal experience is behind the odes of 1818


    it is not their substance.

    • The pronoun ‘I’ stands for a universal human being.

    • The common Romantic tendency to identify scenes


    and landscapes with subjective moods and emotions
    is rarely present in his poetry.

    Performer - Culture & Literature


    John Keats

    4. Keats and imagination

    Keats’s belief in the supreme value of imagination


    made him a Romantic poet.

    His imagination takes two main forms:


    1. the world of his poetry imagined, artificial;

    2. his poetry comes from imagination his work is


    a vision of what he would like human life to be
    like.

    Performer - Culture & Literature


    John Keats

    5. Keats’s beauty
    Beauty strikes his imagination.

    is perceived by the senses; all the senses


    are involved in this process.

    This ‘physical beauty’ is caught


    in all the forms nature acquires.
    Physical beauty can also
    These two kinds of beauty are
    produce a much deeper
    closely interwoven, since the
    experience of joy, which
    former, linked to life, enjoyment,
    introduces a sort of ‘spiritual
    decay and death, is the
    beauty’, that is the one of love,
    expression of the latter, related to
    friendship, poetry.
    eternity.

    Performer - Culture & Literature


    John Keats

    6. The poet’s task

    The poet has what he called ‘negative capability’:

    refers to the capability the poet has to deny his


    certainties and personality in order to identify himself with
    the object of his inspiration.

    When the poet can rely on this negative capability, he is


    able to seek sensation, which is the basis of knowledge
    since it leads to beauty and truth, and allows him to render
    it through poetry.

    A new view of the poet’s task.

    Performer - Culture & Literature


    John Keats

    7. Imagery in Keats

    • Synaesthetic:
    fusion of visual and Synaesthetic
    tactile senses.

    • Concrete: tangible
    material forms.
    Concrete Imagery Pictorial
    • Pictorial: visual
    often personified.

    • Compressed:
    Compressed
    condensed images
    to highlight intensity.

    Performer - Culture & Literature

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