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- Keats emphasizes the aestheticism movement, focusing on "Art for art's sake" and the contemplation of beauty.
- The central theme in Keats's poetry is the idea that "beauty is truth and truth is beauty," highlighting the importance of fine arts.
- Keats regards fine arts like sculpting, painting, and carving as superior to poetry in perceiving reality and making things eternal.
- In "Ode on a Grecian Urn," Keats explores the scenes depicted on a Grecian urn to analyze the connection between life, death, and art.
- Keats conveys that imagination enhances reality, with the anticipation of a moment being more fulfilling than the moment itself, and art's power to immortalize love.
Keats is the poet of art, he anticipate the aestheticism (cult of art and beauty) that is a sort of expression of “Art for art’s sake”. Contemplation of Beauty is the central theme in Keat’s poetry, he conveys ”beauty is truth and truth is beauty” that is the only thing we know on earth, so he highlights the importance of fine arts.
In Keat's opinion, fine arts are: sculpting, painting, carving that are also better than poetry. Art is also important to perceive reality, make things eternal, for consolation and also for his social aim.
In Ode on a Grecian Urn he is inspired by the Greek world that lives again in his verse, in fact he describes the scene of a love chase painted on a Grecian urn and he wants to analyze the deep connection between life, death and art. The scene is beautiful and it’s fixed on the very next moment of the kiss, Keats conveys that the moment of waiting is better than the moment of fulfillment and imagination makes things better than reality. In the end he also says that the power of art makes things eternal through love.
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