Keats Ideas Flashcards
Negative capability
Accept that there are “uncertainties mysteries and doubts” without reaching for conclusions beyond logic
Classicism venerated
Respect in artistic achievements eg mythology
Romance
Courtly stories and chivalry
Sensory appreciation
Less about subject more about reaction to subject
Dream vs waking reality
Idealised reality more pure than actual reality
Revert to childhood
Pure and untainted imagination and creativity
Reality of death
Keats surrounded by death- constant awareness of death emphasises appreciation of beauty and joy
Paradoxical life
Pain and pleasure survive as one
Nature
Nature as benevolent and powerful- antidote to melancholy
Beauty
Enriches life- delays inevitability/intensity of death
Beauty and intensity
“Excellence of every art is intensity”
Female figures
Displayed as mystical however sometimes deceptive- idealisation if women and love
Beauty and pain
Contemplation of beauty leads to a painful realisation and awareness that perfection vanishes
Synaesthesia
Merging of senses
Mortal/ immortal
Humans and love compared to the immortality of art
