By John Keats Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley belong to the second one new release of Romantic poets. The Romantics excited about themselves and nature, in preference to society and common and normal rules. those greats helped outline and form the move.
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The subject was a very popular one with Renaissance and later artists. Keats' artist friends would have been familiar with it and might have drawn Keats' attention to reproductions. What interested Keats particularly in the myth was the fact that Psyche, a mortal, achieved immortality through love. In Endymion, Keats has his hero achieve immortality through love; in The Eve of St. Agnes, Porphyro achieves a kind of immortality through love. Keats' ideal of perfect love was romantic love Page 25 perpetuated.
The sacrificial victim, a lowing heifer, is held by a priest. Instead of limiting himself to the sacrificial procession as another scene on his urn, Keats goes on to mention the town emptied of its inhabitants by the procession. The town is desolate and will forever be silent. The final stanza contains the beauty-truth equation, the most controversial line in all the criticism of Keats' poetry. No critic's interpretation of the line satisfies any other critic, however, and no doubt they will continue to wrestle with the equation as long as the poem is read.
Only men such as he discover Pacific Oceans. " Their imaginations are flooded by a bewildering variety of guesses as to what lies beyond the horizon, new Americas perhaps, filled with gold and fabulous jewels and untold possibilities of further discoveries. They are so choked with emotion that they cannot speak. This is one of the great moments of history, and Keats boldly appropriates it to express his own feelings of having made a thrilling discovery beyond which there may lie countless other similar discoveries as he increases his acquaintance with the world of poetry.