Keats immortality vs mortality
How is the tension between mortality and immortality conveyed in two of Keats’s poems?
Keats’s poems convey an internal struggle between the preference of an authentic mortality or the artificial futile immortality. As a Romantic Poet, Keats elaborates on the necessity of self-expression and imagination in order to understand the power of introspection and the inner workings of the mind, rather than through a systematic, scientific process. In the Poem ‘’Ode on a Grecian Urn’’ Keats explores the struggle with the bittersweet frailty of the human experience, largely concerning love and romance. On the other hand, he addresses the depressing isolation of an confined immortality. Similarly in the poem ‘’Bright Star’’, Keats explores the worthiness of enduring everlasting isolation for an endless observance of the cycles of human emotion in an immortal life. Ultimately, both poems explore the paradoxical factors that create a tension in determining a satisfaction in a life of mortality or immortality.
The temporary fervent nature of the mortal human experience can be detrimental, leaving one to feel secluded and isolated due to ones sense of mortality. The poem ‘’Ode on a Grecian Urn’’ depicts Keats’s Romantic perspective on the power of internal exploration, as such was neglected with a largely conservatism-based society. However, due to Keats’s personal illness’, it also discusses his personal fear and despise for mortality, as rarities such as the rawness of human emotion are to inevitably end. In ‘’All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy’d, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.’’ Shows that even though in this moment that these two lovers are infatuated, human passion unavoidably fades. The synecdoche of the tongue and forehead conveys the detrimental effect of love on the whole body, implying that the absence of love leaves one to feel sick and unsatisfied. In ‘’When old age shall this generation waste,
Keats’s poems convey an internal struggle between the preference of an authentic mortality or the artificial futile immortality. As a Romantic Poet, Keats elaborates on the necessity of self-expression and imagination in order to understand the power of introspection and the inner workings of the mind, rather than through a systematic, scientific process. In the Poem ‘’Ode on a Grecian Urn’’ Keats explores the struggle with the bittersweet frailty of the human experience, largely concerning love and romance. On the other hand, he addresses the depressing isolation of an confined immortality. Similarly in the poem ‘’Bright Star’’, Keats explores the worthiness of enduring everlasting isolation for an endless observance of the cycles of human emotion in an immortal life. Ultimately, both poems explore the paradoxical factors that create a tension in determining a satisfaction in a life of mortality or immortality.
The temporary fervent nature of the mortal human experience can be detrimental, leaving one to feel secluded and isolated due to ones sense of mortality. The poem ‘’Ode on a Grecian Urn’’ depicts Keats’s Romantic perspective on the power of internal exploration, as such was neglected with a largely conservatism-based society. However, due to Keats’s personal illness’, it also discusses his personal fear and despise for mortality, as rarities such as the rawness of human emotion are to inevitably end. In ‘’All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy’d, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.’’ Shows that even though in this moment that these two lovers are infatuated, human passion unavoidably fades. The synecdoche of the tongue and forehead conveys the detrimental effect of love on the whole body, implying that the absence of love leaves one to feel sick and unsatisfied. In ‘’When old age shall this generation waste,