Analysis Of John Keats Love Of Beauty

KEATS’ EVALUATION OF BEAUTY IN HIS POEMS ‘A THING OF BEAUTY’ AND ‘BRIGHT STAR’

ABOUT THE POET
Of all the great poets of the early nineteenth century, John Keats (1795-1821) was the last to be born and the first to die. Born in 1795, in the city of London to poor stable keeper, he was brought up amid surroundings and influences by no means calculated to awaken poetic genius. Rendered an orphan at the tender age of fifteen he was apprenticed as a surgeon by his guardian Mr. Abbey. However, as soon as he abandoned the medical profession to devote his to literature as he realized that poetry was his true vocation. He received much encouragement and inspiration from his friends, Leigh hunt, Haydon, etc. and published his first volume of poems

While Wordsworth was a worshipper of nature, Keats was a worshipper of beauty. Love of beauty is the dominant note of his poetry from the early ‘Endymion’ to his last poem ‘Hyperion: A vision’. Beauty was for Keats the moving spirit of his life and art. Beauty was his religion. His imagination was excited by beauty, and he was at his best only in the presence of the perfect. Thus, he asserted,
“Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty, - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

In keats poetries proposes the contemplation of beauty as a way of inevitability of death. The first apprehension of beauty, according to keats ,proceeds from the senses from the concreteness of physical senses. Beauty is caught by the poet, in most tactile images, in the forms that nature takes,in the colours it displays,in the sweetness of its perfume, in the curves of a peony. But beauty is also productive of a much deeper experielnce than that of an intense sensual pleasure. When he wrote 'A thing of Beauty' he displays the intellectual feeling of joy and does nt much focus upon the enchantment of the senses, and introduces the spiritualised version if beauty. He also explains the innermost truth of things and

A sentence in a novel, a poetic piece, a phrase, all these could be beautiful. Beauty is a source of constant, never-ending, and ongoing feeling of extreme happiness and cheerfulness. Beauty never withers and weakens up or passes away into nothingness. For example, a bower is a nice and placid area under the tree shade. It protects is from bright sun rays and gives us shelter. Beautiful things also gives us pleasant sweven, vision, sound sleep, tranquility, a salubrious breathing and a sigh of relief. Hence beauty is not a property that resists change, whereas it is a cessation that protects our earth and nature. All the lively elaments such as sun, moon, trees, young and old people are the sources of joy and happiness. For instance daffodils blooms and glows in the green environment. The trees spreads, circulate and propagate their branches to give away the shelter and protects us under their green covering. Similarly, the young and transparent brook of flowing water gives cooling shelter to have a protection from hot