JOHN KEATS -2
The day’s quotes from
Keats are quite interesting, but they call for a sedate mindset that can
patiently decipher the innate elegance fielded through a set of words that
demand patient exploration. So, spend a little time and stand rich benefits of
learning from a great poet
I
am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to
the top
The above statement of
Keats is from a letter of his to a friend. The poet expresses deep anguish and says he would
rather stay under water instead of being in the
surroundings in the general ambience –for he is so much depressed.
Life
is but a day
A
fragile dew- drop on it perilous way
From
a tree’s summit
The quote above from
Keats is a brilliant analogy of equating
life to a drop of dew as the two are too ephemeral [short-lived]; also the two
abruptly collapse much like a dew drop
that is dangerously poised for a fall to shatter.
“I
have good reason to be content, for thank God
I
can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths”
John Keats –being a
poet himself expresses gratitude to Divinity that his senses of perception are
intact to the extent that he can appreciate Shakespeare for all his fineness.
It implies that literature appreciation requires a deep /clear perception possible
only if someone is mentally sharp and alert.
“Whatever
the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth- whether it existed before or
not”
What appeals as ‘beauty’
needs no proof of its existence before, and it seldom matters if it were real
or not. It implies that ‘beauty’ is a mind’s perception and it just ends there.
“We
read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same
steps as the author”
The quote rightly and
rightfully emphasizes the idea that what one learns through personal experience
cannot be gathered even from the best of writings. Knowledge of experience is superior to that of
mere reading.
To continue……
