The Romantic Sonnet Tradition and the Strategy in Keats’s Sonnet Writing
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The paper aims to demonstrate John Keats’s distinctive use of the sonnet form whereby the poet represented the conflict and reconciliation between the poetic ideal and his mortal selfhood, working within the sonnet’s predetermined bipartite structure. Keats inherited the sentimental inclinations of the late eighteenth-century sonneteers and maintained their use of the sonnet’s conventional bipartite structure. He also adopted the Romantic sonnet’s interest in the representations of the perceiving mind. In the way Keats reaches a solid re-affirmation of man’s existence, however, he established his unique sonnet model which concerns repeatedly the negatively capable existence, battling its way through the problems of self and its conflict with others; and which is not overwhelmed by melancholia or by the Romantic’s masculine austerity. Keats was concerned more with his intense and lonely personal suffering by departing from the Elizabethan sonnet’s niceties and graces of love, and from the Romantics’preoccupation with the visionary mode of imagination and self. This is the reason why one can detect in Keats’s sonnets dignity and strength, despite their apparent expression of a sentimental atmosphere.
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The paper aims to demonstrate John Keats’s distinctive use of the sonnet form whereby the poet represented the conflict and reconciliation between the poetic ideal and his mortal selfhood, working within the sonnet’s predetermined bipartite structure. Keats inherited the sentimental inclinations of the late eighteenth-century sonneteers and maintained their use of the sonnet’s conventional bipartite structure. He also adopted the Romantic sonnet’s interest in the representations of the perceiving mind. In the way Keats reaches a solid re-affirmation of man’s existence, however, he established his unique sonnet model which concerns repeatedly the negatively capable existence, battling its way through the problems of self and its conflict with others; and which is not overwhelmed by melancholia or by the Romantic’s masculine austerity. Keats was concerned more with his intense and lonely personal suffering by departing from the Elizabethan sonnet’s niceties and graces of love, and from the Romantics’preoccupation with the visionary mode of imagination and self. This is the reason why one can detect in Keats’s sonnets dignity and strength, despite their apparent expression of a sentimental atmosphere.
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