LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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certain people are simply incapable of understanding poetry.
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the true poet must be comfortable with balancing conflicting ideas.
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the poet cannot express anything beyond his own experience.
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it is only in the absence of experience that true poetry can emerge.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What does Keats mean by ‘negative capability’? Clearly, he is using the word ‘negative’ not in a pejorative sense, but to convey the idea that a person’s potential can be defined by what he or she does not possess – in this case a need to be clever, a determination to work everything out.
Detailed explanation-2: -Some examples of negative capability are: 1. John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale.” This poem deals with musings on mortality, containing no real solution on how to deal with the anxieties of impending death. This poem carries a darker tone, leading Keats to reject an optimistic viewpoint.
Detailed explanation-3: -negative capability, a writer’s ability, “which Shakespeare possessed so enormously, ” to accept “uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason, ” according to English poet John Keats, who first used the term in an 1817 letter.
Detailed explanation-4: -Keats’ Theory of Negative Capability I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason [. . .] with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.