ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"Beauty is truth, truth (is) beauty. that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know-John Keats (1820)

Detailed explanation-2: -’Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -that is all. Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. ‘ In other words, beauty is all we need in order to discover truth, and truth is itself beautiful.

Detailed explanation-3: -The title of Ian Stewart’s book (he has written more than 60 others) is, of course, taken from the enigmatic last two lines of John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn": “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, "–that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. But what on earth did Keats mean?

Detailed explanation-4: -According to John Keats a thing of beauty is a joy of forever. It is a constant source of happiness and pleasure. Its loveliness increases every moment. It will never pass into nothingness.

Detailed explanation-5: -(’Ode on Indolence’, though written in March 1819, perhaps before Grecian Urn, is not considered one of the ‘great odes’.) This ode contains the most discussed two lines in all of Keats’s poetry; ‘”Beauty is truth, truth beauty, ” – that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.