Concetti Chiave
- Keats emphasizes that art should engage all the senses simultaneously, creating an intense experience.
- The concept of 'negative capability' involves embracing uncertainty and mysteries without seeking concrete answers.
- Keats's poetry is characterized by a balance of intensity and a focus on detailed observation.
- He values the potential of sympathy and imagination, inspired by Hazlitt's philosophical ideas.
- Hazlitt suggests that our sense of identity is rooted in sensation and memory, opposing egocentrism.
Negative capability
Keats states that the from and style of art should capture its intensity. In order to accomplish this, the artist must paint or the poet must write in such a way that all the senses are simultaneously excited. Art should not touch one sense at a time; rather, the impression made one one sense excites by affinity those of another. Ultimately, Jeats wants to feel a work of art through its impressions on all the senses, and he tries to infuse his own poetry with a balance of intensity.
Keats asserts his idea of ‘negative capability’ in a letter to his brothers George and Thomas: “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason”.
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