Traditional romantic writers can be verified through their ideals of celebrating the power of nature and individualism linked as one. John Keats, a revolutionist of his time, strays from the conventional belief that a romanticist must completely give into the ideals of unity between nature and individualism. Instead, Keats sees nature and the communal as a force to combat his frequent thoughts of loneliness and sadness. Keats excels at describing the agony that he deals with on a daily basis, yet, considering all odds, he seeks nature and love to transcend him from all and any earthly pains he constantly feels. Alongside Keats’ drift from traditional romanticism, his works, “Ode to a Nightingale,” and “A Draught of sunshine”, follow a pattern
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As a way to illustrate his ideas, he starts the poem listing names of popular wines, but Keats then follows by saying, “Too earthly ye are for my sport”, continuing his determination to follow his recurrent belief that he must be satisfied only with unearthly goods (“Sunshine” line). In other words, Keats choice of words lets the reader know that he is not interested with the common pleasures of wine, instead, he prefers his personal love for the clear bright sight the summer sky has to offer. Adding to his argument, he mentions “To thee my soul is flown, / and my body is earthward press’d” illustrating once again his hope to transcend all earthly bonds (Keats “Sunshine” 19-20). Not only does Keats surrender himself to nature with the words “ To thee my soul is flown,” (line) but the words “ earthward press’d” (line) also create an image that he is chained to the ground unable to reach the sky where he wants to be. Following Keats’ combination of nature and love, he adds a mother archetype in upcoming lines that create the image of mother to be nature and Keats as a young child. “As doth a mother wild, / When her young infant child / is in an eagle’s claws,” Keats admits with these line that nature acts as his mother; mother fears for her son as it has been taken hostage by an eagle or Keats’ perception of danger. He materializes the idea that nature wants to nurture and care for him; however, she has no control of the dangers that comes after Keats. Once more, Keats continues to emphasize the mutual love he and nature share, and this unbreakable bond of love with nature is the reason Keats is known to stray away from traditional romantics writer. Keats does seek solidarity with nature; he seeks to love and be with nature. Edward P. Morton, author of One Phase of Keat’s Treatment
As a way to illustrate his ideas, he starts the poem listing names of popular wines, but Keats then follows by saying, “Too earthly ye are for my sport”, continuing his determination to follow his recurrent belief that he must be satisfied only with unearthly goods (“Sunshine” line). In other words, Keats choice of words lets the reader know that he is not interested with the common pleasures of wine, instead, he prefers his personal love for the clear bright sight the summer sky has to offer. Adding to his argument, he mentions “To thee my soul is flown, / and my body is earthward press’d” illustrating once again his hope to transcend all earthly bonds (Keats “Sunshine” 19-20). Not only does Keats surrender himself to nature with the words “ To thee my soul is flown,” (line) but the words “ earthward press’d” (line) also create an image that he is chained to the ground unable to reach the sky where he wants to be. Following Keats’ combination of nature and love, he adds a mother archetype in upcoming lines that create the image of mother to be nature and Keats as a young child. “As doth a mother wild, / When her young infant child / is in an eagle’s claws,” Keats admits with these line that nature acts as his mother; mother fears for her son as it has been taken hostage by an eagle or Keats’ perception of danger. He materializes the idea that nature wants to nurture and care for him; however, she has no control of the dangers that comes after Keats. Once more, Keats continues to emphasize the mutual love he and nature share, and this unbreakable bond of love with nature is the reason Keats is known to stray away from traditional romantics writer. Keats does seek solidarity with nature; he seeks to love and be with nature. Edward P. Morton, author of One Phase of Keat’s Treatment