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@article{183374,
        author = {SUSHMA METI},
        title = {Art, Thought, and Transience: Keats’s Vision of Beauty, Imagination, and Mortality},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {3},
        pages = {1752-1754},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=183374},
        abstract = {John Keats, a luminary of the English Romantic movement, presents a profoundly nuanced aesthetic and philosophical vision centered on the complex relationships among beauty, imagination, and mortality. His poetry, deeply embedded in sensory richness and metaphysical inquiry, transcends his brief life and temporal constraints to engage with universal human experiences. This paper conducts an extensive examination of Keats’s poetic exploration of these themes, focusing on his major odes and lyrical poems. It contends that rather than offering definitive answers, Keats embraces the tensions between permanence and transience, reality and imagination, joy and sorrow, thus crafting a poetic discourse that thrives on uncertainty and ambiguity. Through close readings of Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, To Autumn, and Ode on Melancholy, the study reveals how Keats’s poetry becomes a meditative space where aesthetic experience prompts philosophical reflection on life’s ephemeral nature and the enduring quest for meaning.},
        keywords = {John Keats, Romanticism, beauty, imagination, mortality, negative capability, transience, aesthetic philosophy, Romantic odes, sensory imagery.},
        month = {August},
        }