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Topic: Keats’sescapism
Introduction :
Escapism is the most important ingredients of romantic poetry
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He was born in an era when
everyone was talking about revolutionary ideas
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He is a pure poet
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He writes
poems that directly hit the senses
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Poetry for the
sake of poetry is his agenda
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He always finds
a way of creating fancy world so that he may forget worries of his life
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This kind of poetry deals with imagination
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Even he is ready to
accept death as witnessed in “Ode to Nightingale”
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John Keats is the Most
Escapist among Romantic Poets
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He does not find any
difficulty in its creation
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Several reasons are there due to which he prefers ideal world to world of reality
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However escapism is possible
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He did not like
the cruel world
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He was too sensitive
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"Hyperion" is full of sorrows and sufferings
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He also compares melancholy with joy and
concludes that Melancholy dwells with beauty, “ Beauty that must die”
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Fade far away, and quite forget
What thou amongst the leaves hast never known,
(Ode to a Nightingale)
Sorrows and suffering are inevitable
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But it
was a passing mood that seized him
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Sorrows and sufferings were inevitable in life, and he fully realized that escape from
the realities of life was neither possible nor desirable
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(Hyperion)
Keats was trying to attain serenity of mood amid all the sufferings which he was undergoing in
his
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This mood of serenity is expressed in the
Ode to Autumn, which according to Middleton Murray, is “the perfect and unforced utterance
of the truth contained in the magic words (of Shakespeare): Ripeness is all”
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His
Hellenism is much famous
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It is because he takes
interest in Greek objects
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He also takes interest in Greek myths
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Poems of
John Keats depict either Greek or Medieval themes
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Physically he can't travel in the past
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Thus, love for past also compels
him to be an escapist
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We know that world of romance is the subject matter of romantic poetry and
it totally depends on dreams and imagination
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John Keats does so
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John Keats is a romantic poet and also an escapist
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He is not satisfied from his life
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Romantic poets can create world of perfection
but it can only be created through high imaginative powers
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He has a
good imagination
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Quest of Beauty:
For him, "A thing of beauty is joy forever"
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His
vision helps him in this regard
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This ode is a dream but it pleases the senses aesthetically
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John Keats does not only find beauty in nature but also in art
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He says that art is beautiful and everlasting In this ode too, he escapes to
fancy world and quests for beauty
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He can find beauty in each and everything
even in truth
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Conclusion:
Concluding it, Keats, possesses the qualities of romantic and pure poet he loves nature, which is
seen by him with Greek temper
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In his early poetry, one can perceive
him as an escapist because there was joy and delight and overcharged imagination because of
inexperience youth
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One can clearly sees in his Odes that he is not an escapist but he is accepting the realities of life
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(Tennyson)