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Nature and the Poetic Views of John Keats

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time. His work is most renowned for its approach to nature, and its symbolic use of nature. In the following paper Keats approach to nature is noted and then discussed  as it applies to some of his poems. The poems are discussed separately and are as follows: "Bright Star," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "To Autumn," "In a Drear-Nighted December,"  "Ode on Melancholy," and "Ode to a Nightingale." Keats and Nature "John Keats was born in London, England, on Oct. 31, 1795...He did not spend his early years  close to nature, as did many poets, but in the city of London" (Quintos). However, as noted by many, there was "born in him an intense love of beauty....Unlike his  contemporaries Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Wordsworth, Keats had no desire to reform the world or to teach a lesson" for he "was content if he could make his readers  see and hear and feel with their own senses the forms, colors, and sounds that his imagination brought forth" (Quintos). Many who study his work and his life argue  that he possessed an "exquisite perception and enjoyment of external nature" (Chapter III: John Keats). And, as mentioned, his approach to nature was different from that of Wordsworth, another noted  poet of nature. For example, "The instinct of Wordsworth was to interpret all the operations of nature by those of his own strenuous soul; and the imaginative impressions he had  received in youth from the scenery of his home, deepened and enriched by continual after meditation, and mingling with all the currents of his adult thought and feeling, constituted for  him throughout his life the most vital part alike of patriotism, of philosophy, and of religion" (Chapter III: John Keats). For Keats "the sentiment of nature was simpler than" this,