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班级 学号：2010031106 姓名：王宁 * * The Characteristics of John Keats Spontaneity and concentration of thought and feeling Keats was a pure poet in the sense that in his poetry he was a poet and nothing — not a teacher, not a preacher, not a conscious carrier of any humanitarian or spiritual message. Poetry came naturally to him, as leaves come to a tree ; it was the spontaneous utterance of his powerful feeling. The poetry of Keats was based on his actual experience of life, and therefore it is marked by spontaneity and intensity. What he experienced and felt upon his pulse he expressed. 2. Submission to the truth of life and experience Keats possessed what Bradley calls the Shakespeare on strain, and submitted to the truth of life. He knew that the cold wind and the hot sun were as essential as the fresh blown rose. He accepted life as it is, joy and sorrow, happiness and melancholy—both exist side by side ; if there is discord in life, it has its music too. A pure poet always submits to life, so that life is glorified through him. Keats submitted himself says Middleton Murry, Steadily, persistently, unflinchingly to life and had the capacity to see and to feel what life is.” Keats says Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. 3. Pursuit of truth Keatss aestheticism was not only sensuous—it had an intellectual element. He was constantly endeavoring to reach truth through beauty ; he had a conviction that “ for his progress towards truth, thought, knowledge and philosophy were indispensable.But he felt also that a poet will never be able to rest in thoughts and reasonings, which do not also satisfy imagination and give a truth which is also beauty. Keats was led to this conviction by the poetic instinct in him. He was more than Wordsworth or Coleridge or Shelley, a poet pure and simple. 4. Negative capability Keats has an impulse to int