A Comparative Study of the Pursuit of Beauty in Keats's and Poe's Poems
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https://doi.org/10.53469/jsshl.2023.06(04).31Keywords:
Poem, Keats, Poe, BeautyAbstract
Frustrations clouded Keats's and Poe's lives. Beauty was what they yearned for all their lives. They both considered beauty was the only theme of poems. To ornament beauty, they employed in their poems plenty of allusions of mythology which symbolize beauty. What they both sought after was the ideal eternal beauty teemed with imagination. However, Poe appreciated the beauty of melancholy and Keats worshipped sensuous beauty; Keats was fond of the beauty of nature while Poe stressed the death of a beautiful woman; Most, if not all, of Keats's poems were progressive, while Poe's beauty was anaesthetic and somewhat pessimistic, whereas it's worth understanding. Their original poetry has a hunting effect on the world. However, life, coarse and rough, has left them with scars all over. Beauty, anyway, accompanies with thorns. This thesis mainly makes a compare
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