Keats’ odes have generally been considered as his important works, especially “Ode on a Grecian Um”, “Ode to a Nightingale”, “Ode to Autumn”, and “Ode on Melancholy”. From these poems, we may find the same thoughts and feelings. The world of nature is beautiful, the poetry and imagination is beautiful. Life is the source of artistic beauty, the beauty of art is the true life. This should be looked as the portrait of the poet’s life. His artistic achievements are to pursuit the beauty of the real world in his life.
The paper aims to discuss the beauty of work by analyzing Keats’ poems, trying to find out how the poet to look for the beauty in the real life, how to transform the beauty of life to the art of beauty, how to let the beauty of poetry to express through the sense of touch, smell and tease, and his superb art of imagination. I mainly seek to the beauty in the works from Keats’s poetry
II. The Poems of John Keats
2.1 The Development of Poetry
Keats’ life is short, with suffering from tuberculosis. At the same time, the poet loved Miss Fanny Boone. As the poet himself, he often thought of two things is the sweetness of love and of his dead time. In this case, the emotions of the poet, heart filled with grief and longing for life. In a deep night, with the birds singing loud and clear, the poet wrote the 8 more than 80 lines of “Ode to a Nightingale”. Keats on November 22, 1817, to Bailey wrote: “to be able to live, by feeling not by thinking that!” (11). Keats in his ode “ode to the nightingale”, “Ode to the Ancient Greek urn” and “Autumn”, respectively, puts forward three kinds of beauty, happiness and eternal feeling and warm feeling, they are all derived from the beauty of nature exists objectively. “Ode to the nightingale” song of the nightingale beauty, happiness comes from nature “Ode to the Ancient Greek urn” sense of eternity from elegant ancient Greek urn, on display at the museum of the autumn warmth comes from after the autumn harvest is full of remnant stem fields is ablaze. Visible, Keats ode main aesthetic feeling all is the result of objective existence in the nature of beauty and art beauty, Keats’s aesthetic and materialism has consistency. Keats’s “Ode to the nightingale” not only illustrates the aesthetic feeling of art comes from nature, but also explain the romantic view of nature. “The nature is the source of human happiness”(3).
2.2 The Feature of Lyric Poetry
Keats’s lyric poetry is a pure, fresh and beautiful with harmony sweet beautiful. Works pursuit of beauty and the ugly constitutes the tone of his lyrics. He dared to unhealthy tendencies, exposed the abscess of the society, the biggest characteristic is strong to the perceptual, surging passion beyond word. Another characteristic is the novelty of artistic conception, with imagination into the realm of assumption, pay attention to the excellent novel ideas and artistic conception of poetry. 论约翰•济慈作品中的“美”(2):http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_39135.html