Topic Notes

• Discuss Keats as a Poet of Sensuousness.Discuss Keats as a poet of beauty and sensuousness. Or, discuss Keats as a poet of beauty. Or, comment on Keats’ conception of beauty. Or, discuss Keats as a poet of sensuousness. John Keats (1795-1821)[Expand...]
• Background of the Poem "Ode on Melancholy"Background of the Poem "Ode on Melancholy" Harold Bloom said this poem by John Keats is based on negative capability. Negative capability is to get lost in the fantasy world and forget the world's sorrows[Expand...]
• Discuss Keats’ idea of melancholy. Discuss Keats’ idea of melancholy.  Or, describe melancholy's relation with beauty and joy with reference to Keats' “Ode on Melancholy”. John Keats’s (1795-1821) “Ode on Melancholy,” published in 1819, explores the deep connection between melancholy[Expand...]