존 키츠의 『엔디미언: 시적 로맨스』에 나타난 이상화의 진실
The Truth of Idealization in John Keats’s Endymion: A Poetic Romance
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John Keats, one of the major second generation Romantic poets was aware that the limits found in the nature of life and reality would not be overcome by imagination. He recognized that the apocalyptic visions of Early Romantic poets were nothing but a fantasy. According to him, there is no eternal life, no eternal joy and nor eternal truth. Life reveals its meaning only when it is considered with death, as joy with sorrow and good with evil take on their whole meaning. This paper examines how Keats’s understanding of the limits of reality reveals itself in Endymion. On the surface, the poem narrates Endymion’s adventure to find Cynthia, goddess of the absolute beauty. A close look into it, however, leads its readers to see Endymion’s foolishness with which he fails to face the object of his love. Cynthia, concealed under the veil of idealization, is not “that completed form of all completeness.” In fact, she is a vague being that appears and disappears, escaping others’ grasp. Keats leads us to recognize that our belief in the completeness is only fantasy, by making us realize the limits of an idealized object. Our lives will be richer when we face the limits of our reality, although the recognition involves a painful experience.
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John Keats, one of the major second generation Romantic poets was aware that the limits found in the nature of life and reality would not be overcome by imagination. He recognized that the apocalyptic visions of Early Romantic poets were nothing but a fantasy. According to him, there is no eternal life, no eternal joy and nor eternal truth. Life reveals its meaning only when it is considered with death, as joy with sorrow and good with evil take on their whole meaning. This paper examines how Keats’s understanding of the limits of reality reveals itself in Endymion. On the surface, the poem narrates Endymion’s adventure to find Cynthia, goddess of the absolute beauty. A close look into it, however, leads its readers to see Endymion’s foolishness with which he fails to face the object of his love. Cynthia, concealed under the veil of idealization, is not “that completed form of all completeness.” In fact, she is a vague being that appears and disappears, escaping others’ grasp. Keats leads us to recognize that our belief in the completeness is only fantasy, by making us realize the limits of an idealized object. Our lives will be richer when we face the limits of our reality, although the recognition involves a painful experience.
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