Myth and beauty in the intertextual structure of John Keats’ poetry
Journal Title: Вісник Університету імені Альфреда Нобеля. Серія "Філологічні науки" - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 15
Abstract
The article is devoted to the use of ancient myths and the category of the beautiful in mythopoetical poems of John Keats. The authors examine the poet’s search of truth and beauty, his identification of love with poetry and the formation of his poetic credo. During the recent years there has been a growing interest of literary critics, readers and translators in this country in the creative work of John Keats, universally acknowledged as one of the greatest Romantic poets. The poet lived a very short life of 25 years, yet in that time he enriched the English language with some of the greatest poems. Had he never written a line of verse, Keats would still be remembered for his enthralling letters. So, on the one hand, one could speak about the brevity of Keats’ life, and on the other, about the greatness of his achievement. John Keats, the poet of the young generation of Romantics, brought into the English Romanticism a new, Hellenistic element and the cult of beauty and harmonious enjoyment of life. Keats’ mythopoetic works based on ancient plots attract special attention of literary critics and translators. The desire to contrast the ideals of harmony, purity and beauty with the reality of the surrounding world forms the basis of Keats’ aesthetics. The poet was looking for ideas in ancient times and in the Renaissance epoch. Keats was looking for truth and beauty, which were inseparable in his conscience, as he considered beauty to be the true essence of any phenomenon. If it is distorted and darkened in its present state, it is the task of a poet to discover beauty and make it visible. This is what poetic imagination needed for. The charm of John Keats beauty is indebted to the accuracy of the selected tropes and to the diversity of rhyme and stanzas. The poetic credo of John Keats was formed within the framework of the aesthetics between two eras – the 18th and the 19th centuries. He was gradually changing from the singer of corporeal beauty which really exists, but it is not noticeable for bodily eyes.
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L. Semerenko, A. Pliushchai
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- DOI 10.32342/2523-4463-2018-0-15-177-181
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