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John Keats and the Rhetoric of Romantic Love -Centering on the Relationships between Love and Imagination as Extended Metaphor-

  • Journal of Humanities
  • 2014, (54), pp.375-416
  • Publisher : Institute for Humanities
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : June 20, 2014
  • Accepted : August 4, 2014

Myungok Yoon 1

1인천대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

John Keats embodied the relationships of romantic love and imaginationthrough the rhetoric of an extended metaphor in his poems. The poetextensively dealt with an erotic love story, which is internally a kind ofexperiment of his own imagination. By the way, the concepts of romanticlove and imagination were the two axes of an epochal paradigm of the19th-century romanticism which opened up a new era, breaking off thetradition of the 18th-century neoclassicism in Britain. As the freedom andspontaneity of human beings became more emphasized in the revolutionaryera, such a trend emphasized free and romantic love. Besides, a number ofnew ideas began to make their appearances, not only in terms of themes andforms of poetry but also in literary criticism, which emphasized the functionof imagination as an icon of innovative ideas. Romantic poets who hadexercised a far-reaching influence and made achievements in diverse areas when compared with other poets, therefore, cherished imagination and soughtfor love in their poems enough to be called love poets. Of them, Keatsrecognized “a man's life of any worth” as a “continual allegory” andreflected this periodic and literary phenomenon in his own work, by graftingthem onto the rhetoric of an extended metaphor. The poet can get a chance to come closer to the quintessence of things through imagination andintuition through what is recognized as his best-known doctrine: “negativecapability.” “Negative capability” implies an engagement with an actual objectthrough imaginative identification that is simultaneously a kind oftranscendence. A poet loses selfhood that demands a single perspective,identifies with the experience of the object, and lets the experience speakitself through him/her. Therefore, through these processes, the denotation andthe connotation being embodied in Keats' poetry are integrated into one andcan form a true integer in terms of contents and techniques.

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