John Keats was one of the youngest poets of the blossoming Romantic generation, and left a significant mark in literature. He was a romantic poet, his writing full of aspiration and lust, but as a person was shy and composed. He was a determined young man with all the teenage angst, on a pursuit to be considered among some of the greatest English poets as the legacy he would leave behind. Although he lived a shortened life, this did not stop him from writing some extremely important poems. When he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, Keats began to observe the beauty that was hidden in everything around him and this seeped into his writing, becoming a major component of the themes for his works. This lead to people seeing John Keats as a poet of beauty, and the material where he found infinite and everlasting beauty was art. In this attraction, Keats coined the term ‘negative capability’ in a letter to his brothers George and Tom.
Keats often found beauty in what was an unpleasant and appalling world. He admired Shakespeare, and Keats had an
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For Keats, this is a device used to understand different people, cultures, or points of view, which affect how we may be able to express our selves. From John’s letter we can discern that he is talking about being adept at ignoring one's own personality, to imaginatively enter the shoes of another. In that letter to his brothers, Keats writes that “being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason” (Keats, 1047), It looks as if he is talking about the kind of genius that cannot make up their mind. The reason though, is the fact that one’s own identity is unpredictable, continually being occupied by the identities of those they are empathizing with. By this logic, people such as Wordsworth who has a static opinion, in that case would suffer from a kind of egotistical