‘Change,
decay, mortality: these are the enemies in Keats’s odes. ‘
" In Letter 31, written in November 1817, Keats wrote “ I am certain of nothing but of holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not – for I have the same Idea of all our Passions as of Love they are all in their sublime, creative of essential Beauty” ( Mayhead p123). He wrote Ode on a Grecian Urn six months later, giving his own words to the urn. The praise of Beauty and Imagination as the most important things shows that, even though he could not always talk of acceptance concerning the transience of life, he was at least able to forget about it the time to let himself slip into the power of imagination, beauty, art, and love.
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| Bright Star by Jane Campion Abbie Cornish as Fanny Brawne and Ben Wishaw as John Keats. |
“ Beauty is truth, truth beauty”, - that is all
Ye know on earth and all ye need to know”
Ode on a Grecian Urn
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