Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -What idea do you get about Keats as a Romantic poet or Nature poet in the poem The Poetry of Earth’?
Romantic poetry aims at the complete expression of the individual’s feelings and emotions. Keats lived in the Romantic Age of English Literature and he fully imbibed the spirit of his age. Romantic poetry is inspired by the search of the unknown, the invisible and the infinite. We find all these elements in this poem yet we see that Keats’ imagination is rooted in reality. Like all the romantic poets, Keats enjoyed the varied charms of nature. He saw beauty in the ordinary things of life and considered them a part of the infinite universal beauty. Thus the voice of the Grasshopper and the Cricket pass from the world of brevity of time to the world of eternity. The cycle of seasons reveal something strange and mysterious about Nature, where beauty renews itself every moment. Keats and other romantic poets too sought inspiration for poetry in natural beauty. That inspiration becomes the only truth for them. Hence he mentions in ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’- ‘beauty is truth, truth beauty.’