What makes keats a romantic poet

The narration of strangeness supplied the romantic quality to the poem of Wordsworth. Similarly Keats finds beauty in ordinary things of nature. He finds beauty in ordinary things like flowers, streams and clouds.

He loved Universal Beauty which is one and infinite. He is inspired and captured by the song of the nightingale. While bird yet for Keats it has become a symbol of unlimited joy and infinite absorbed in haring the song of the nightingale Keats is removed from this world of reality to the world of eternity. The Nightingale, though a simple happiness. One peculiarity of Keats is that in his poem we find a blending of the classical and the romantic.

The stories of these poems belong to the middle ages which is considered as the store house of romance. Nature, with all its beauty and enrapturing charms, is always there as a perfect setting for the poems of Keats whether he is speculative and depressed over imminent death or he be lost in the beauty of ancient art or enchanting like a bird at night. John Keats is a passionate romantic who presents all his themes on the canvas of nature.

All his poems are a sheer depiction of the colours and beauty of Nature. The romantic imagination of the poet reveals in a flash a world beyond this world-the world of eternity where the nightingale sings forever and forever. The song of the nightingale becomes a symbol of the universal spirit of Beauty.

Like all romantics, Keats has love for nature and its varied charms. He has a vivid sense of colour, and he transfigures everything into beauty that he touches with "the magic hand of chance". In his Ode to Autumn , the treatment of the subject is objective as Keats presents a rich and vivid picture of the season.

The poem is a nature-lyric and only the beauty and bounty of nature during the Autumn are described in a vivid and realistic manner. He describes Autumn as the "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"-In the third he says,. Think not of them, thou has!

To the poet Autumn is complete in itself with its own beauty and luxurious fruitfulness. Sensuousness is the out-standing characteristic of Romantic poets. Keats is pre-eminently a poet of sensuousness. One of the most striking notes of romantic poetry is that of supernaturalism. Even in worries, pains, sufferings and disappointments, he enriches his poetry with sensuous beauty.

He talks about those things, which he has never experienced in his life. Quests for beauty also helps John Keats to stand apart from his rival romantic poet. Love for the past is also another important element of his poetry. Ancient Greeks and their myths are a matter of interest for him.

His love for Greeks is highly appreciated by many other poets of his era. He reads Greek classics due to which his interest in their culture increases. Besides, he also loves their art. He compares art with mortality in this ode. He calls art immortal and humans mortals. Art, he says, will remain forever, whereas humans will fade and pale one day. A Greek artist has sculptured some images on the urn and Keats has something to say about it.

He is a lunatic for beauty and beauty is the soul of his poetry. Thus, in his imagination, he remembers people of Greeks who are introduced to him through Greek literature. Not only Greeks but also people of medieval period are matter of interest for him. Some of his poems are on medieval period.

Keats also loves nature and elements related to it.