ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
John Keats would probably NOT have written a poem celebrating ____
A
The beauty of the natural world
B
The pains of love
C
Political and philosophical conservatism
D
The nature of artistic creation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -John Keats wrote sonnets, odes, and epics. All his greatest poetry was written in a single year, 1819: “Lamia, ” “The Eve of St. Agnes, ” the great odes (“On Indolence, ” “On a Grecian Urn, ” “To Psyche, ” “To a Nightingale, ” “On Melancholy, ” and “To Autumn”), and the two unfinished versions of an epic on Hyperion.

Detailed explanation-2: -Keats is often seen as a purely sensual poet, isolated from the social and political concerns of his day. Andrew Motion challenges this view, exploring how Keats translated political, philosophical and medical questions into physical, immediate language.

Detailed explanation-3: -John Keats is one of the Romantic poets in English Literature who discovered truth in beauty through imagination. As a romantic poet, his poetry is full of imagination, love, pain, immortality, escapism. Art is the creation of beauty and romantic poet unveils the art which is mystic and beautiful.

Detailed explanation-4: -He had been inspired by a series of recent lectures by Hazlitt on English poets and poetic identity and had also met Wordsworth. Keats may have seemed to his friends to be living on comfortable means, but in reality he was borrowing regularly from Abbey and his friends.

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