ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -“love the mighty abstract idea of Beauty in all things.” In Keats’s poems Beauty is often contrasted with Mutability that characterize the facts of life-the changefulness to which man and all that he is heir to are subject.

Detailed explanation-2: -The poem is based on a Greek legend, in which Endymion, a beautiful young shepherd and poet who lived on Mount Latmos, had a vision of Cynthia, the Moon Goddess. The enchanted youth resolved to seek her out and so wandered away through the forest and down under the sea. What pleasure does a beautiful thing give us?

Detailed explanation-3: -John Keats was an English Romantic lyric poet whose verse is known for its vivid imagery and great sensuous appeal. His reputation grew after his early death, and he was greatly admired in the Victorian Age.