Concetti Chiave
- John Keats, born in 1795 in London, lived a short life marked by suffering and the deaths of his parents from tuberculosis.
- Known as the father of aestheticism, Keats found solace in art, which he believed could console people from life's brutality and suffering.
- He perceived art as a way to achieve beauty and truth, with the power to transcend the senses and offer a deeper perception.
- Keats valued the eternal nature of art, seeing it as a means to resist the decay of time and death, providing comfort through its immortality.
- In "Ode on a Grecian Urn," he highlights art's ability to preserve beauty and passion eternally, surpassing the fleeting nature of life.
He had a very short life: he died of tuberculosis and he suffered a lot. His father and his mother also died of T.B.
He is considered a concrete and objective poet, the father of aestheticism.
He studied medicine and started to write and he discover that art is his way: he found consolation on art.
- he loved classic, he loved every kind of art.
- His social and political involvement is not so great.
- He loved marble, he was attracted by marble and statues
He wrote about his conception of art:
Art can console people from brutality of life and from sufferance.
Keats believed that beauty is truth and truth is beauty, he look for beauty in art.
He wrote to express his sense of beauty: he identify beauty with truth, the expression in poetry of that aesthetic satisfaction can produce ethical results.
The art, because of his power, can go behind senses, can lead us on a deeper level of perception.
Art is the only thing to resist the decay brought by the time and death: beauty is eternal and immortal: it comfort man for his sorrow.
He found consolation in plastic art because it can immobilize the moment and preserve it In eternity.
He died in 1821 of T.B.
ART: makes thing eternal
Celebrates youth, love and beauty in their highest moments and
preserved them from decay.
Is good for spirit, is better than life because in art passions are
eternal.
Stops the pass of time.
Reconciles aesthetic quality with intellectual one.
Escape from life’s delusions.
GRECIAN URN: symbol of permanent beauty and beauty is the only truth.
Keats doesn’t hope to find the divine essence in nature which can’t answer to the question of immortality (that can comfort men).
Art is the only way to resist the decay: man could live forever in art.
Domande da interrogazione
- Qual è il concetto di arte secondo Keats?
- Come Keats vede l'arte in relazione al tempo?
- Qual è il significato dell'"Ode su un'urna greca" di Keats?
Keats credeva che l'arte potesse consolare le persone dalla brutalità della vita e dalla sofferenza. Per lui, la bellezza è verità e la verità è bellezza, e l'arte è l'unico modo per resistere al decadimento portato dal tempo e dalla morte.
Keats vede l'arte come un mezzo per fermare il passare del tempo, rendendo le cose eterne. L'arte celebra la giovinezza, l'amore e la bellezza nei loro momenti più alti e li preserva dal decadimento.
L'"Ode su un'urna greca" personifica l'urna come qualcosa al di fuori del tempo, simbolo di bellezza permanente. L'arte, rappresentata dall'urna, è vista come superiore alla vita perché le passioni in essa sono eterne e offre una fuga dalle illusioni della vita.
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