ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

JOHN KEATS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Romantic poets tried to:
A
Expose logic as fraud
B
Return to the past
C
Embrace science
D
Escape from reality
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -As we find in the poetry of great romantic poets Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats. Like, Coleridge escaped into the supernaturalism. Wordsworth found that the world was too much with the people, so he escaped into the world of Nature and Shelley created a dream world of idealism.

Detailed explanation-2: -Escape to the Middle Ages Some Romantic poets felt irritated with the tyranny and ugliness of materialistic life of their age and to avoid the life of uneasy restlessness, they escaped from the problems of the world to a world of beauty and joy which their poetic definitions had pictured.

Detailed explanation-3: -John Keats is a romantic poet and also an escapist. His odes are evident that he has not ability to face hardships, therefore, he seeks escapism. He is not satisfied from his life. He thinks that far far away from this life, there must be peaceful world.

Detailed explanation-4: -of the Romantic poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Romantics highlighted the healing power of the imagination, because they truly believed that it could enable people to transcend their troubles and their circumstances. Their creative talents could illuminate and transform the world into a coherent vision, to regenerate mankind spiritually.

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