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    John Keats was a Romantic poet born in 1795 in London. He had a passion for reading poetry from a young age and was well educated. Some of his major works included Endymion, The Eve of St. Agnes, and his great Odes. Keats believed that through "negative capability," a poet could take on different perspectives beyond their own to seek truth and beauty. He saw physical beauty as a way to experience deeper spiritual beauty and joy. Though his life was marked by tragedy, including the death of loved ones and his own early death from tuberculosis in 1821, Keats made lasting contributions to poetry through his emphasis on imagination, sensation, and the fusion of visual and tactile senses in his

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    John Keats was a Romantic poet born in 1795 in London. He had a passion for reading poetry from a young age and was well educated. Some of his major works included Endymion, The Eve of St. Agnes, and his great Odes. Keats believed that through "negative capability," a poet could take on different perspectives beyond their own to seek truth and beauty. He saw physical beauty as a way to experience deeper spiritual beauty and joy. Though his life was marked by tragedy, including the death of loved ones and his own early death from tuberculosis in 1821, Keats made lasting contributions to poetry through his emphasis on imagination, sensation, and the fusion of visual and tactile senses in his

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    John Keats was a Romantic poet born in 1795 in London. He had a passion for reading poetry from a young age and was well educated. Some of his major works included Endymion, The Eve of St. Agnes, and his great Odes. Keats believed that through "negative capability," a poet could take on different perspectives beyond their own to seek truth and beauty. He saw physical beauty as a way to experience deeper spiritual beauty and joy. Though his life was marked by tragedy, including the death of loved ones and his own early death from tuberculosis in 1821, Keats made lasting contributions to poetry through his emphasis on imagination, sensation, and the fusion of visual and tactile senses in his

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    John Keats was a Romantic poet born in 1795 in London. He had a passion for reading poetry from a young age and was well educated. Some of his major works included Endymion, The Eve of St. Agnes, and his great Odes. Keats believed that through "negative capability," a poet could take on different perspectives beyond their own to seek truth and beauty. He saw physical beauty as a way to experience deeper spiritual beauty and joy. Though his life was marked by tragedy, including the death of loved ones and his own early death from tuberculosis in 1821, Keats made lasting contributions to poetry through his emphasis on imagination, sensation, and the fusion of visual and tactile senses in his

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    ‎ YNAESTHETIC: fusion of visual and tactile

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    ‎senses
    ‎Born in London in 1795
    ‎CONCRETE: tangiblematerial forms
    ‎IMAGERY IN KEATS ‎Well educated at school in Enfield
    ‎PICTORIAL: visual often personified
    ‎Early passion for reading poetry
    ‎ OMPRESSED: condensed images to
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    ‎highlight intensity ‎LIFE ‎Family plagued by death

    ‎ oomed love story with Fanny Brawne owing


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    ‎to his poverty and bad death
    i‎t refers to the capability the poet has to
    ‎deny his certainties and personality in order ‎Got tubercolosis
    ‎to identify himself with the object of his
    ‎inspiration ‎Died in 1821 in Rome
    ‎NEGATIVE CAPABILITY ‎THE POET'S TASK
    ‎ hen poet is able to rely on this capability,
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    ‎he is able to seek sensation, which is the
    ‎basis of knowledge, because it leads to ‎Endymion ‎a long mythological poem
    ‎beauty and truth
    ‎The Eve of St Agnes ‎with romantic features

    ‎strikes his imagination ‎JOHN KEATS ‎1918


    ‎La Belle Dame Sans Merci
    ‎ ballad which reflected a taste for medieval
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    ‎themes and form

    ‎all the senses are involved in the process ‎is perceived by the scenes ‎MAIN WORKS
    ‎The great Odes
    ‎ hysical beauty can also produce a much
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    ‎1920 ‎Hyperion
    ‎deeper experience of joy, which introduces a t‎ his physical beauty is caught in all the forms
    ‎sort of spiritual beauty, that is the one of ‎nature acquires
    ‎BEAUTY
    ‎love, friendship and poetry
    ‎ is lyrical poems are not fragments of a
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    t‎ hese two kinds of beauty are closely ‎spiritual autobiography
    ‎interwoven, since the former, linked to life,
    ‎enjoyment, decay and death, is the ‎ ehind the odes there is a personal
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    ‎expression of the latter, related to eternity ‎experience, but it's not the substance of the
    ‎work
    ‎HIS POETRY
    t‎ he pronoun "I" stands for a universal human
    ‎ eats was a romantic because of his
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    ‎being
    ‎supreme value of imagination
    ‎IMAGINATION t‎ he common Romantic tendency to identify
    ‎his imagination is artificial
    ‎scenes and landscapes with subjective
    ‎two main forms ‎moods and emotions is rarely present in his
    ‎ is imagination is a vision of what he would
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    ‎poetry
    ‎like human life to be like

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