Ode To Auttumn By John Keats
Different Moods of the Poet John Keats
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Neeraj Kumar
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Abstract
The aim of this article is an attempt to know the different moods of the poet John Keats how Keats
moves from Negation to Affirmation how he reacted against problems, how he turned between reality
and unreality, joys and sufferings, imagination and reason, and how he turned towards poetry. The
poet who once declared that he wanted to fade for away, dissolve and quite ... Show more content on
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Here he accepts life with Joy and Sorrow. Before Ode to Auttumn, Keats is a poet with an insatiable
desire for the joy of life but in the ode Keats reaches a stage of impersonality where the process of
death and decay are acceptable to him. It is the most perfect of the odes of Keats. Keats with all his
poetic qualities is here in the poem which has a unique and perfect expression even the severest critic
finds no fault. In it there is no looking before and after, no pining for what is not, but a complete
negation of his own self. It is an objective presentation of the truth of life. The poem was written at a
time when Keats had a lot of pain and adversity around him. Tom was already dead, Goerge wanted to
go to America and Keats being the eldest had to arrange for money. His own love for Fanny Brawne
was a cause of much agony for him. There is much pain at the back but the delights of literature are
also with him. The Sunday walk by the River Itchen proved soothing and he drank deep the screne
beauty of nature which resulted in his Ode to Autumn. Keats narrates a beautiful season to us and he
does it in an objective way, Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness/ Close bosom friend of the
maturing sun;/ Conspiring with him how to load and bless/ With fruit the vines that round the thatch
eves run. (Garrod,
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