keats, context and critics

Illness and morality

Keats mother and brother died of tuberculosis which shapes his poetry by his awarness of totality and fear of oblivion

Medical training

He trained as a surgeon before becoming a poet which gave him a unique understanding of the fragility of the human body

Romanticism

He was part of the second generation of romantics who believed in emotion, imagination, nature, individualism and art as truth

Negative capability

His own theory which emphasiesd the ability to remain in uncertainty, doubt and mystery without chasing facts or reason

Greek mythology and classical influence

Influenced by Greek art, myths and ideals of beauty and permanence, used myths to explore timelessness, loss and artistic immorality