JOHN KEATS AND THE DIVINITY OF BEAUTY
Shekhar, Dr. Naresh Kumar
Page No. : 32-34
ABSTRACT
The paper focuses on Keats’ vision of beauty and attempts
to show how this feeling of beauty has its being in the moment of perception.
For Keats, the magic of the beautiful is the magic of the moment – undistracted
and undiluted. For Keats, all that is vouchsafed to man is the experience of
the moment. Continued life is a succession of moments, each moment betokening
both the beginning and the end of life. One of the main themes of Keats’ body
of work is the relation between the banalities of everyday life and the
pleasure of the senses derived from art and beauty. Keatsian aesthetics instead
of being a theory in abstract was a deeply felt conviction which was premised
on a profound insight in life. Keats’ select poems will be analysed in light of
these ideas.
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