– The theme of his poetry:the everyday world of chaos dominated by death and decay vs. the eternal beauty and lasting truth of poetry and the human imagination.
– Elements of Hellenism, feeling for the Middle Ages
– A special conception of what a poet should be:suffering is necessary for the understanding of the world; great poetry grows from deep suffering and tragedy
His work:
– Poems:attracted very little attention
– Endymion:a poetic Romance: extensive use of Greek mythology; search for an ideal love and happiness beyond earthly possibility
o Theme:A shepherd’s love for the Moon and his search for her
– Lamia and Other Poems (Ode to a Nightingale; Hyperion; Isabella,…): Keats develops a poetic language; everything in the poems is balanced; Keats’s odes are considered to be the best of short poems in the century
o elusive beauty: tends to escape from whoever wants to possess -> the subject of Keats’s ballads written between 1818-1820
– La Belle Dame sans Merci:his most famous ballad; full of magical and fantastic images; Keats uses unfamiliar vocabulary: OE words, archaisms
Themes:
Dream vs. reality
Imagination vs. actuality
Superstition vs. supernatural
o Influenced Robert Graves and the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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