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Keats loved beauty; beauty in all things - in the face of woman, in the song of bird, in flower, hills, in the legends of old, in clouds, in the great books, in the pieces of stone etc. etc. He said, " I have loved the principle of beauty in all things." (letter to Fanny)
In another letter to Benjamin Bailey, he wrote, " I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination - What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not - for I have the same idea of all our passions as of love: they are all, in their sublime, creative of essential beauty." As he is also known as "Poet of Escape", it seems that for Keats, world of beauty was his world of Imagination (that is triggered from the realities of the world). Though, his concept of beauty encompasses happiness and malencholy, joy and sorrow, but imagination brings a new aspect of beauty, which is perceptible to the senses. In "Gracian Urn", he seems to advocate that Man is mortal, but "Art" (his work) makes him immortal. For him, every work of art having truth in it must be beautiful, and every beautiful work of art should have bitter truth in it. He just wants to have an element of truth in it, and then goes ahead with his imagination to beatify it more. But, can Art be a subtitute of real life? Maybe, his statement is in the context that on the Urn, the lover will always love, through they will not be able to fulfill their desire, the musician will keep playing music etc. The time has stopped, or call it permanence. In this way, the real life is beauty, where the lover will be able to conssumate their desire etc. Well, the poem is full of dualities (silence and sound, static and eternal, time and timless) confused. Is he talking about "Moral Truth" and its relation to Beauty?? Truth of beauty? OR Beauty of Truth? |
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By the way, in this whole thread, nothing is new. I wonder you have read keats criticism and these points were not there. Well, I still admire your ORIGINALITY.
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contribution should be considered and if one is unable to find his/her required answer then should ignore the post..i appreciate the efforts of unsolved_mystery .brother do not mind it .and as far as originality is concerned it means your own ideas.ideas of two types ;one is your own perception and second your own genius.sahir has asked about perception.and i like your contribution. plz do not mind it all
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To All Frnz
brother your first post on this thread was just a copied version and that z not what i need. I asked you all guyz to share your own ideas not what z written in traditional books. That z what i meant from originality. I was expecting that here i would get some novel ideas about the said lines. I am not a book worm n thatz y i surf net to get new n innovative things. You are xpecting from Sahir something original. I have read Keats, i've read critics' viewpoint about him, but i'm not satisfied. I posted this question here not for fun but with a hope that someone's ideas may be different. I appreciate your ironical posts, and i know that you are able enough to share your own view point on these lines. There may be similarity but there should not be sameness. You guys have more xperience than me so i need ur help to solve this unsolved mystery. I am busy with my end semester examz so i'm not able to give much time to keats, i've to read again his six great odes, his letters, my own notes to give u that originality. For present share your own ideas guyz. One thing more this z not a literary war going on here, i'm asking u frnz to help me to get the meaning of thoze two lines."I hope, i'm not speaking heresy"...
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