Keats's View On Death In His Odes

The gravid odes by John Keats effortlessly survive the run of time and modern anti-romantic crusade. How far it is due to the fact that the poet in these rimes projects realistically Death, the eventual(prenominal) conqueror is debatable, but their popularity to a enceinte extent is due to his attitude to death as depicted in them. They are a quest for truth the ultimate truth of which death is an inevitable part.

The Renaissance liberated military personnel from the shackles of religious bondage of the Middle Ages and released the minds ghostly potentialities. Man indulged in self-assessment and an awareness of individual identity create through various stages of self soul. It is quite natural that he would never search for a way of excelling the final negation of consciousness that is Death. It is also natural that they would try to find out a way of reconciling the painful contrasts of life- flux and instability in genius hand and eternity on the other. All five great poems by Keats portray this dilemma and dichotomy. In other words, the tragical world of reality ruled by the finite and virulent condition of man clashes with the ideal, the world of art. They may be define as the troubled poems exploring the dark passages of human soul. All of them intro a similar train of thought and a wholeness of feeling.



In Keatss odes we find the idea to be proven.

In Ode on a Grecian Urn, the urn is an inanimate object, but the historied depiction on it of a world of love, beauty, joy and fealty is beyond death. It lies in a timeless world of silence. The poem opens with an address to the urn, which is described as the still unravishd bride of immobility and foster child of silence and slow time. Its justice and sanctity is preserved and ensured in a world where neither sound nor tide of time exists, a world which is in sharp contrast to the ever-noisy and ever-changing real world flux ruled by clock and thought. In the second stanza of the poem, the rival of lovers is...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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