Keats"s Odes reveal the contrasts between reality and dream, mortality and immortality, naturalism and supernaturalism. So we can find in Keats"s characteristics many opposites. He finds melancholy in delight, and pleasure in pain. Even more he feels the highest intensity of love as an approximation...
Keats"s Odes reveal the contrasts between reality and dream, mortality and immortality, naturalism and supernaturalism. So we can find in Keats"s characteristics many opposites. He finds melancholy in delight, and pleasure in pain. Even more he feels the highest intensity of love as an approximation to death. He is apt to approach equally a life of indolence and sensation with a life of thought. For he is aware both of the attraction of an imaginative dream world without disagreeables and the remorseless pressure of the real world. This indicates that Keats has the sense of equality between soul and body, dream world and actuality. It is a very paradoxical view related with an oxymoronic thought. Therefore the aim of this thesis is to study the paradox of Keats"s Odes. Keats expresses physical aspect prior to spiritual in "Ode on Indolence" and spiritual aspect prior to physical in "Ode to Psyche." In "Ode on Indolence," he enjoys the physical comforts and indolence in avoiding three figures-Love, Ambition and Poesy. But he reversely expresses, through the process of the poem little by little, his awareness that he has to stop it and start to work again. In "Ode to Psyche," he accepts the suffering pleasantly and paradoxically, which awakens his soul in return for his effort. Keats, as an intense lover of this world, explores through the imagination into the ultimate reality of our melancholic life to give it positive meaning paradoxically. And he learns that this world is full of melancholy. And he also expresses the equality between body and soul in "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and he recognizes the absoluteness and the relativitv. In these poems, Keats overcomes the limitations of his earthly life and through this achieves his soul. At last, in "Ode on Melancholy," he observes his understanding of the ironic mutability of life. In "To Autumn," he overcomes the limitations of our earthly life by firmly accepting the mutability: seeing death as one process of eternal cycle of death and rebirth, he accepts life as it is with the conviction of the principle of beauty in all things. Unlike other Romantic poets, Keats, shunning self-expression, wished to write the most objective form of poetry, poetic drama being full of paradox. These goals lead up to the conclusion which is his poetic goal to tum towards the affirmation of pain, melancholy, sorrow, misery in this world, as well as pleasure, joy, and beauty. In Keats"s concept, it is the sense-the intuitive knowledge-of the universe of human experience as a harmony, and a consequent love of good and ill. Therefore the essence of his poetry is the complexity and contradictions of experiences and paradoxical recognition. He can get the power of insight and contemplation about life and death through his poetic experiences.
Keats"s Odes reveal the contrasts between reality and dream, mortality and immortality, naturalism and supernaturalism. So we can find in Keats"s characteristics many opposites. He finds melancholy in delight, and pleasure in pain. Even more he feels the highest intensity of love as an approximation to death. He is apt to approach equally a life of indolence and sensation with a life of thought. For he is aware both of the attraction of an imaginative dream world without disagreeables and the remorseless pressure of the real world. This indicates that Keats has the sense of equality between soul and body, dream world and actuality. It is a very paradoxical view related with an oxymoronic thought. Therefore the aim of this thesis is to study the paradox of Keats"s Odes. Keats expresses physical aspect prior to spiritual in "Ode on Indolence" and spiritual aspect prior to physical in "Ode to Psyche." In "Ode on Indolence," he enjoys the physical comforts and indolence in avoiding three figures-Love, Ambition and Poesy. But he reversely expresses, through the process of the poem little by little, his awareness that he has to stop it and start to work again. In "Ode to Psyche," he accepts the suffering pleasantly and paradoxically, which awakens his soul in return for his effort. Keats, as an intense lover of this world, explores through the imagination into the ultimate reality of our melancholic life to give it positive meaning paradoxically. And he learns that this world is full of melancholy. And he also expresses the equality between body and soul in "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and he recognizes the absoluteness and the relativitv. In these poems, Keats overcomes the limitations of his earthly life and through this achieves his soul. At last, in "Ode on Melancholy," he observes his understanding of the ironic mutability of life. In "To Autumn," he overcomes the limitations of our earthly life by firmly accepting the mutability: seeing death as one process of eternal cycle of death and rebirth, he accepts life as it is with the conviction of the principle of beauty in all things. Unlike other Romantic poets, Keats, shunning self-expression, wished to write the most objective form of poetry, poetic drama being full of paradox. These goals lead up to the conclusion which is his poetic goal to tum towards the affirmation of pain, melancholy, sorrow, misery in this world, as well as pleasure, joy, and beauty. In Keats"s concept, it is the sense-the intuitive knowledge-of the universe of human experience as a harmony, and a consequent love of good and ill. Therefore the essence of his poetry is the complexity and contradictions of experiences and paradoxical recognition. He can get the power of insight and contemplation about life and death through his poetic experiences.
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