Essay on John Keats

Endymion is one of Keats early adventures in poetry. The verse form reflects Keats attitude to smasher. Endymion is a youth renowned for his beauty and his perpetual sleep. As he slept in Mount Latmus in Caria, his beauty warmed the gelid hearts of Seleue (the Moon) who came down to him, kissed him and lay by his spatial relation. His eternal sleep on Latmus is assigned to different ca lend oneselfs but it is generally believed that Seleue had sent him to sleep that she susceptibility be able to kiss him. Keats has for sure made use of the fable of Endymion to explore his own way to realize the truth that is beauty (Hewlett, 1949). precisely the myth remains only the framework. Keats invents preferably a lot. Aileen Ward (1963) in this connection saysthe legend of Endymions winning immortal youth through and through the love of the Moon Goddess was only the beginning or rather the completion he had to fill up his four books with living characters, set them go in a world o f their own and breathe new kernel into the old legend.And this consequence he does, indicate at the beginning of the poesyA thing of beauty is a joy of everIts fair-mindedness increases it will neverPass into nothing but still will keepA bower quite for us, and a sleepFull of sweet dreams, and health and quite breathing.The theme of the poem is love, beauty and youth. He starts this marvelous adventure laden with exotic scenery, in mid(prenominal) April and locates it aptly in the Isle of Wight So Ill beginNow tour I cannot hear the cities direNow while the early hudders argon just new,And run in mazes of the youngest hewAbout old forests while the willow trailsIts small ambrer and the dairy pailsBring home increase of milkThere ar certainly inspired pieces in the first book as Hymn of Pan. It begins after(prenominal) a description of the Festival of the God, which held on a lawn in a forest on a slope of Mount Latmus. The whole throng is addressed by the old priest who t ells the worshippers of the bounties which Pan has heaped upon them. The imagery is come up chosen to explain the manifestation of Gods energy. All the objects are described in happy phrases. The God is associated with the objects of nature, every aspect which imagination, chase for the objectively mysterious, can comprehend. The Hymn ends in the lines in which Pan is The unacceptable lodgeFor solitary thinkings such as dodgeConception to the very Bourne of HeavenThen leave the au naturel(p) brain.The style of Endymion is largely that of I Stood Tip-Toe and Sleep and Poetry. This is luscious, half amahlike and often beautiful (Roe, 1997). There is a distinct growth, of course, in slyness but the most important point about Keats at this dry land is his depth and breath of philosophic apprehension of myth. If we try to search for the meaning of the poem in the organism of the structure, the divided self of Keats might be clearer, though it will affirm his inclination on the rea listic side even at this stage. The control in certain portions of the poem is incertain partly because Keats was a young and undisciplined artist (Steinhoff, 1987). Up to the die hard arcminute, the hero as well as the poet till the last moment of his life is subject to conflicting desires.As a matter of fact, there is equivocalness in the poem. The poems ending is presented in highly evasive way and it could be interpreted on two different levels. On the mythological level, the maid Indian Maiden is only the Goddess in a disguise to test Endymions fidelity. This is a fairy tale device. So when Endymion seems to give up human love and asserts his devotion to things of light the maiden turns back into the Goddess and rewards him with the immortality of passion promised in the myth (Hewlett, 1949).To conclude, the real significance of the poem lies in search of truth, through the bare-circumstance of this legend. Keats was the first poet in English who effectuate a human meani ng in the myth. He did not condition myths into an allegorical pattern as Elizabethans did or did not only use them to decorative effect as the 18th Century people did. Keats persona lies in finding that the Greek myths were relevant to our inner experiences.ReferencesHewlett, Dorothy. 1949. A manner of John Keats, Hurst & Blackett, pp.325-326.Roe, Nicholas, 1997. John Keats and the Culture of Dissent, Oxford Clarendon Press.Steinhoff, Stephen. 1987. Keatss Endymion A precise Edition, The Whitston Publishing Company, Troy, New York, pp.295-300.Ward, Eileen. 1963. John Keats The Making of a Poet, New York.