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A 3 page paper which compares how John Keats and William Wordsworth felt about the nature of man in their poetry. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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poets that are still analyzed and appreciated today. They were perhaps very different individuals, in terms of ideals, and poetry. But, like many poets and thinkers there seems to be
also something quite similar about their works or their attitudes towards life which would demonstrate itself in their individual poetry. The following paper looks for that similarity, a similarity that
involves the nature of man when they are experiencing their darkest, or quietest, of times. The poems examined are Keats "Ode to a Nightingale" and Wordsworths "Lines Composed a Few
Miles Above Tintern Abbey." Keats and Wordsworth There are many ways to explicate the intentions of one poet or another. One critic notes, for example, that Keats was a
poet who often spoke of "negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainty, Mysteries, doubts, without an irritable reaching after fact and reason" (Romanticism: Wordsworth,
Keats, Leopardi). This critic further notes that Wordsworth was a poet who often reveled in a sense of tranquility that can only come from moments of silence, and that "the
emotion is contemplated till by a species of reaction the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion" arises in the mind (Romanticism: Wordsworth, Keats, Leopardi). Clearly the two poets are
quite different in their presentation and their material or focus of material. But, at the same time the words of darkness apparent in the critics notation on Keats is similar
to the tranquility spoken of in Wordsworths work. Through examining the darkness, something only possible in moments of tranquility, a human being can better come into contact with their nature,
their creative side, their truths without seeking solid facts or reasons. For many it may seem that darkness is something related to death or depression, but it can also represent
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