"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"-the famous line in English romantic poet John Keats'Ode on a Grecian Urn-has triggered wide discussion and numerous interpretations. From the point of"negative capabi..."Beauty is truth, truth beauty"-the famous line in English romantic poet John Keats'Ode on a Grecian Urn-has triggered wide discussion and numerous interpretations. From the point of"negative capability", a phrase first coined by Keats himself, this paper is attempting to display the consistency between that poetic line and the poet's creation and life attitude on the whole. For this purpose, this paper will mainly introduce and interpret five of Keats'famous odes in the order of their display of his"rising acceptance of life": Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn, Ode on Melancholy and Ode on Indolence. This paper would like to show in the first three Keats's positive quest in different aspects and on certain levels, the fourth the underlying tone of life's polyphonous song, and the final the"negative capability"that constitutes his healthy attitude toward creation and life. Finally, this paper hopes to demonstrate that it is such capability that enables the poet to growingly accept life, and it is also essential to him as a philosophical poet.展开更多
Keats's poems are famous for beauty,and Ode to Autumn is generally regarded as one of his most beautiful poems.In this ode,Keats presents a vivid picture of the harvesting autumn,in which many forms of beauty can ...Keats's poems are famous for beauty,and Ode to Autumn is generally regarded as one of his most beautiful poems.In this ode,Keats presents a vivid picture of the harvesting autumn,in which many forms of beauty can be captured.The present paper attempts to conduct an analysis of the beauty in Keats's Ode to Autumn,hopefully it could help readers better understand Keats and his works.展开更多
文摘"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"-the famous line in English romantic poet John Keats'Ode on a Grecian Urn-has triggered wide discussion and numerous interpretations. From the point of"negative capability", a phrase first coined by Keats himself, this paper is attempting to display the consistency between that poetic line and the poet's creation and life attitude on the whole. For this purpose, this paper will mainly introduce and interpret five of Keats'famous odes in the order of their display of his"rising acceptance of life": Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn, Ode on Melancholy and Ode on Indolence. This paper would like to show in the first three Keats's positive quest in different aspects and on certain levels, the fourth the underlying tone of life's polyphonous song, and the final the"negative capability"that constitutes his healthy attitude toward creation and life. Finally, this paper hopes to demonstrate that it is such capability that enables the poet to growingly accept life, and it is also essential to him as a philosophical poet.
文摘Keats's poems are famous for beauty,and Ode to Autumn is generally regarded as one of his most beautiful poems.In this ode,Keats presents a vivid picture of the harvesting autumn,in which many forms of beauty can be captured.The present paper attempts to conduct an analysis of the beauty in Keats's Ode to Autumn,hopefully it could help readers better understand Keats and his works.
