Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -What concept do you get about Keats’ notion of beauty as revealed in the sonnet ‘The Poetry of Earth?’
‘Beauty’ is one of the most striking features of Keats’ poetry. He is an ardent believer of beauty in its classical sense. For him ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever’ but here he goes beyond mere appreciation of beauty. Like an apostle, he declares in ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ that ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’. In ‘The Poetry of Earth’, the poet uses various phrases to express the beauty of Nature. The song of Nature continues through summer, merges into winter and the Grasshopper takes the place of the birds only to be succeeded by the Cricket. This song has a soul of its own and expresses itself even through the tunes of the tiny insects. Here Keats’ perception of beauty is typically sensuous and reflected in natural images like, ‘hot sun’, ‘cooling trees’, ‘new-mown mead’, ‘pleasant weed’, ‘lone winter evening’, ‘the Grasshopper’s among some grassy hills’ and so on. By using rather unconventional imageries, Keats has portrayed the beauty of summer and winter. So we can conclude by saying that beauty of Nature lies in its balance.