Essay on John Keats

Endymion is one of Keats early adventures in poetry. The poem reflects Keats attitude to beauty. Endymion is a early days renowned for his beauty and his perpetual sleep. As he slept in Mount Latmus in Caria, his beauty warm up the cold hearts of Seleue (the Moon) who came down to him, kissed him and lay by his side. His eternal sleep on Latmus is assigned to distinguishable causes but it is generally believed that Seleue had sent him to sleep that she might be able to kiss him. Keats has authorizedly do use of the allegory of Endymion to explore his own way to realize the truth that is beauty (Hewlett, 1949). But the myth remains only the framework. Keats invents quite a lot. Aileen Ward (1963) in this connection saysthe legend of Endymions triumphant immortal youth through the love of the Moon Goddess was only the graduation or rather the conclusion he had to fill up his four books with living characters, set them moving in a field of their own and breathe new meaning in to the old legend.And this meaning he does, indicate at the beginning of the poemA thing of beauty is a joy of everIts loveliness increases it allow for neverPass into cipher but still will keepA bower quite for us, and a sleepFull of sweet dreams, and health and quite breathing.The newspaper of the poem is love, beauty and youth. He starts this marvelous adventure laden with exotic scenery, in mid April and locates it aptly in the Isle of Wight So Ill begin flat while I cannot hear the cities direNow while the early hudders are just new,And run in mazes of the youngest hewAbout old forests while the willow trailsIts exquisite ambrer and the dairy pailsBring home increase of milkThere are certainly inspired pieces in the rootage book as Hymn of Pan. It begins after a description of the Festival of the God, which held on a lawn in a forest on a slope of Mount Latmus. The whole assembly is addressed by the old priest who tells the worshippers of the bounties which Pan has heaped upon them. The imagery is well chosen to explain the manifestation of Gods energy. All the objects are described in happy phrases. The God is associated with the objects of nature, e real aspect which imagination, hunting for the objectively mysterious, can comprehend. The Hymn ends in the lines in which Pan is The unimaginable lodgeFor solitary thinkings such as dodgeConception to the very Bourne of HeavenThen leave the naked brain.The style of Endymion is largely that of I Stood Tip-Toe and Sleep and Poetry. This is luscious, half powder-puff and often beautiful (Roe, 1997). There is a distinct growth, of course, in craftsmanship but the most all important(p) point about Keats at this state is his depth and breath of philosophic apprehension of myth. If we try to inquisition for the meaning of the poem in the organism of the structure, the divided self of Keats might be clearer, though it will affirm his inclination on the realistic side even at this stage. The control in certa in portions of the poem is uncertain partly because Keats was a young and undisciplined artist (Steinhoff, 1987). Up to the last moment, the paladin as well as the poet till the last moment of his life is subject to conflicting desires.As a matter of fact, there is ambiguity in the poem. The poems ending is presented in highly enigmatic way and it could be interpreted on two different levels. On the mythological level, the maid Indian Maiden is only the Goddess in a disguise to test Endymions fidelity. This is a fairy relation device. So when Endymion seems to give up human love and asserts his devotion to things of light the maiden turns back into the Goddess and rewards him with the immortality of lovemaking promised in the myth (Hewlett, 1949).To conclude, the real significance of the poem lies in search of truth, through the bare-circumstance of this legend. Keats was the first poet in English who found a human meaning in the myth. He did not fit myths into an allegorical pattern as Elizabethans did or did not only use them to decorative effect as the eighteenth Century people did. Keats contribution lies in finding that the Greek myths were relevant to our inner experiences.ReferencesHewlett, Dorothy. 1949. A feeling of throne Keats, Hurst & Blackett, pp.325-326.Roe, Nicholas, 1997. John Keats and the Culture of Dissent, Oxford Clarendon Press.Steinhoff, Stephen. 1987. Keatss Endymion A Critical Edition, The Whitston Publishing Company, Troy, New York, pp.295-300.Ward, Eileen. 1963. John Keats The Making of a Poet, New York.