Shelley is primarily a poet of love, as Keats is of beauty. The story of his life is, in fact, a story of love. But it has to be remembered that Shelley as a love poet is a complex phenomenon. For him love, is not the name of one particular feeling or thing. It is …
Love for Nature is one of the prerequisites of all the Romantics and Shelley is no exception. Love for Nature is one of the key-notes of his poetry. His poetry abounds in Nature imagery. ‘On Love’ reflects colourful Nature imagery and glorification of Nature. He shows fruition and fulfillment in his poems. Other poems e.g. ‘A Dream of the …
Shelley’s poetry is regarded as abstract, lacking the note of high seriousness and having nothing solid and substantial. That’s why Mathew Arnold referred to Shelley as “a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain”. It is alleged that he cherishes fanciful ideals, weaves dreams and does not deal with real …
Cazamian detects: “Shelley’s lyricism is incomparable. In no other, do we find the perfect sureness, the triumphant rapidity of this upward flight, this soaring height, the super terrestrial quality as well as poignant intensity of the sounds which fall from these aerial regions. Truly, never was the soul of a poet so spontaneously lyrical”. Shelley lyrics …
Shelley was a true-born child of the French Revolution. The spirits of that revolution found its expression in Shelley’s poetry. But as a critic observes: “The greater rigour of his nature begot in him a passion for reform and a habit for rebellion which are the inspiration of his longer poems.” Throughout his life he …
Keats is in many ways the most romantic of all romantic poets. Romantic poetry aims at the complete expression of the individual as compared to classical poetry, which aims at the expression of social experience. Other romantic poets have some political or social comment in their poetry. But the poetry of Keats is not a …
Ans:- Keats is a mystic of the senses and not of thoughts as he sought to apprehend the ultimate truth of the universe through aesthetic sensations and not through philosophical thoughts. Sensuousness is a quality in poetry which affects the senses i.e. hearing, seeing, touching, smelling and tasting. Sensuous poetry does not present ideas and …
Keats was considerably influenced by Spenser and was, like Spenser, a passionate lover of beauty in all its forms and manifestations. The passion of beauty constitutes his aestheticism. Beauty was his pole star, beauty in nature, in woman and in art. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” He writes and identifies beauty with …
OR Comment critically on Keats’s sensuousness and state what value it contributes to his poetry. OR “Keats is a mystic through senses”-discuss with the help of poems prescribed. OR Assess Keats’ sensuousness on the strength of his poems. Answer: “Poetry”, says Maine, “as it came to Keats , was not a spiritual vision as with Wordsworth …
“Poetry to Keats is a joy wrought out of the sensation.” Read More »
Ans:- Ans:- In The Good Woman of Setzuan, Bertolt Brecht uses the parable of Shen Te, a put-upon woman singled out by the gods as the only good person on Earth, to contemplate whether one can ever truly be plainly, wholly “good.” Throughout the play, as Shen Te struggles to be good to others and …
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