Studies in English Language and Literature

       Discuss sensuousness and pictorial qualities in Keats’ poetry with reference to Ode to a Nightingale and To Autumn . A thorough study of Keats’ poems like Ode to a Nightingale and To Autumn   justifies how Keats lived for ‘a life of sensations’. Opening up with a keen sensation of agony,   Ode to a Nightingale soon gives place to ‘a drowsy numbness. Keats’ poetry excels in vividly sensuous images in the lines full of sensuousness and the visual picture of a drinking vessel. In the closing stanza of   Ode to Autumn , a fantastic reconstruction of the dying autumnal twilight suggests the magnificent perfection of Keats’ poetic sensibility. Ode to a Nightingale   seems to be suffused with pictures, mostly visual, but occasionally manifested with the aural, the tactile and the olfactory portraits. To Autumn   is also full of sensuous pictures. Stanza I depicts the fruits of autumn. Stanza II of the ode a...

A brief note on Negative Capability propounded by John Keats Answer : Negative capability is a paradoxical term. It was propounded by John Keats. Poetic capability is achieved through a process of negation. One morning, John Keats noticed many sparrows chirping, and abruptly, he felt himself identical to that species of sparrows. Poetic self is the negation of one’s personal self. Keats used this phrase ‘negative capability’ in one of his letters to his friend, Reynold. Poetical process is a process of negation. According to the Modernists, a poet should ne gate his personal self in order to join another self. The Romantics may be called to have formed a bridge between the post-Romantics and the Modernists. According to Keats, sensuousness is an instrument that will help him attain ‘negative capability’. The keywords to the writing " A brief note on Negative Capability propounded by John Keats" Negative capability, paradoxical term, poetic ca...