Rising Acceptance of Life and Negative Capability—A Reading of John Keats’s Odes

• 作者: 谢春燕
• 来源期刊: 海外英语
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: NEGATIVE CAPABILITY KEATS ODES
• 年，卷（期）: 2013,（5X）
• 页码范围: 210-211
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: I561.072

摘要

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"-the famous line in English romantic poet John Keats’Ode on a Grecian Urn-has triggered wide discussion and numerous interpretations. From the point of"negative capability", a phrase first coined by Keats himself, this paper is attempting to display the consistency between that poetic line and the poet’s creation and life attitude on the whole. For this purpose, this paper will mainly introduce and interpret five of Keats’famous odes in the order of their display of his"rising acceptance of life": Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn, Ode on Melancholy and Ode on Indolence. This paper would like to show in the first three Keats’s positive quest in different aspects and on certain levels, the fourth the underlying tone of life’s polyphonous song, and the final the"negative capability"that constitutes his healthy attitude toward creation and life. Finally, this paper hopes to demonstrate that it is such capability that enables the poet to growingly accept life, and it is also essential to him as a philosophical poet.

作者信息

序号	姓名	单位	发文数	被引次数	H指数	G指数
1	谢春燕	同济大学浙江学院	4	0	0.0	0.0