Concetti Chiave
- John Keats, originally apprenticed as a surgeon, chose poetry, becoming an icon for the Aesthetic movement due to his focus on art and beauty.
- Despite his early death at 26, Keats produced significant literary works, emphasizing the ephemeral nature of life against the enduring power of art.
- His famous epitaph "Here lies one whose name was written in water" reflects life's fragility and art's timeless permanence.
- "Ode on a Grecian Urn" illustrates Keats' belief in art's eternal witness to history, contrasting with human mortality and fading beauty.
- Keats viewed imagination as the poet's greatest tool, capable of transcending reality to create beauty, with the ultimate poetic goal being the union of beauty and truth.
John Keats
John Keats (1795-1821) was an orphan who was first apprenticed to a surgeon before choosing poetry and literature as a profession. He died very young (he was only twenty-six year old) but wrote a lot a works; he is also considered a model by the Aesthetic movement’s members because of his identification between art and beauty, and his searching for perfection. Before dying, he wrote his own epitaph: “Here lies one whose name was written in water”, thus enhancing the fragility of life and the power of time, which can delete everything except art.
This sense of the fragility of men and the strength of art is represented in one of his most famous work, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”.
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