Keats Letters

Question 1

Beauty

Answer 1

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affliction and the truth of imagination - What the imagination sizes as Beauty must be truth
1817

Question 2

Wider Society

Answer 2

The Vale of Soul-making
Necessity of a World of Pains and troubles to school Intelligence and make it a soul
1819

Question 3

Romance

Answer 3

When I am among women I have evil thoughts
1818

I have two luxuries to brood over on my walks, your Loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both at the same time
1819

Question 4

Remembered

Answer 4

I have scarce doubt of immortality in some nature or other

1818

Question 5

Negative Capability

Answer 5

NC that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after face and reason
1817

Question 6

Pain

Answer 6

The world is full of Misery and Heartbreak, Pain, Sickness and Oppression
1818

Question 7

Stimulus of Emotions

Answer 7

O for a life of Sensations rather than Thoughts!
1817

I am however writing at random - straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness
1819

Question 8

Nature

Answer 8

if Poetry comes not naturally as the Leaves on a tree it had better not come at all

Question 9

Religion

Answer 9

The Imagination may be compared to Adam’s dream - he awoke and found it truth