Existentialism in Keats' Poetry
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- Existentialism
- a philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.
- mainly with certain 19th and 20th-century European philosophers
- centered upon the analysis of existence and of the way humans find themselves existing in the world.
- The notion is that humans exist first and then each individual spends a lifetime changing their essence or nature.
- When I Have Fears
- 'This somewhat nihilistic and existential perspective that unlimited values are rendered meaningless by a limited life actually calm the speaker’s angst and despair'
- Of the wide world I stand alone, and think/Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
- image: modern existential position
- Modern: 'It goes beyond the unresolved anxieties of the Victorians to both an intellectual and emotional acceptance of the absolute isolation of the individual.'
- image: modern existential position
- Mortality: “The speaker simultaneousl-y faces the opportunities life holds for him and the threat of his own untimely death”
- Ode to a Nightingale
- “Do I wake or sleep?”
- Intense existential uncertainty
- negative capability intrinsically associated with existentialism
- Intense existential uncertainty
- negative capability is often attained by an encounter with the ultimate mystery, death, an experience that challenges and even overwhelms the subject’s sense of identity.
- “Do I wake or sleep?”
- On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
- 'My spirit is too weak—mortality/ Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep'
- Keats confronts his own mortality whilst experiencing a solitary sense of the sublime and vast loneliness
- 'unwilling' lack of control: not a free and responsible agent
- a philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.
- mainly with certain 19th and 20th-century European philosophers
- centered upon the analysis of existence and of the way humans find themselves existing in the world.
- The notion is that humans exist first and then each individual spends a lifetime changing their essence or nature.
- a philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.
- 'My spirit is too weak—mortality/ Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep'
- a philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.
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