Imaginative Aspects In The Odes Of John Keats

Abstract

Poets of the Romantic era, such as John Keats, are well-known for their focus on nature as a source of creative awareness of the world around us. They thought that the coincidence and merger of the spoken and the ineffable exemplified imagination. Keats's contemporaries shared his view that the imagination is intrinsically linked to the poet's passionate focus on nature, which in turn inspires the poet's creative output. But Keats was different from his romantic contemporaries in his approach to the imaginative process. Inspiration for his poems came from his ability to use his imagination in every situation.