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Title: John Keats’s Concept of Negative Capability
Description: John Keats’s Concept of Negative Capability
Description: John Keats’s Concept of Negative Capability
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John Keats’s Concept of Negative Capability
Introduction:
Keats evolved a series of closely interrelated notions, centering on the function of the
poet, the standards of good poetry, the composing of poetry, and other fundamental issues in
poetics, most of which are found in his letters
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Negative capability is a phrase first used by John Keats in 1817 in a letter to his brothers
George and Tom; to explain the capacity of the greatest writers (particularly Shakespeare) to
pursue a vision of artistic beauty even when it leads them into intellectual confusion and
uncertainty, as opposed to a preference for philosophical certainty over artistic beauty
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Inspired by Shakespeare’s work, he describes it as “being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts,
without any irritable reaching after fact and reason
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Keats found this fullest in
Shakespeare
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It is a quality that ensures all “all disagreeables”- or all objects,
characters, events, emotions, thoughts that are inherently ugly and inharmonious“evaporate” or dissolve into the overwhelming beauty and truth of art works
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In the heat of imagination, every identity is mingled,
every thought, emotion, and feeling is mixed, and all “uncertainties, Mysteries,
doubts” become elements of beauty, no longer subjecting to logical, factual, and
analytical examination
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It reveals the transmoral nature of the greatest art
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Rather the opposite
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All great artists when they are engaged in creation have love for every human being,
including the most despicable
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In Ode to a Nightingale, he can truly be with nature through the song of the
nightingale, abandoning this world completely
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Just using his poetic
thoughts, he can find an escape from this harsh and cruel world that causes nothing but
sadness
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John Keats’s Ode to a Grecian Urn: Throughout the poem, Keats captures moments and
holds them to prevent change and decay, reveling in that moment of perfection
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” –that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
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The speaker is
utterly effaced: his contemplation of the urn does not allow inspiration to strike his brain
but allows him to selflessly hear the urn’s message
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The urn is the ultimate communicator of the poem
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Conclusion:
Although John Keats died a young poet, his influence on modern and contemporary
poetry is monumental
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Unlike other Romantic poets such as Wordsworth who are often
criticized for what Keats termed the “egoistical sublime”, Keats was of the view that the poet
must efface his subjectivity and negate his intervention to see into the Beauty of things
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Title: John Keats’s Concept of Negative Capability
Description: John Keats’s Concept of Negative Capability
Description: John Keats’s Concept of Negative Capability