LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:9 September 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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John Keats and Robert Frost – The Romanticists sans Escapism

Dr. R. Baskaran, M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Aspects of Comparative Literature

Comparative literature is not merely a literary comparison, rather it has now carved its own niche as a separate branch of literary history. It is even recognized as the study of international relationships because the very future of human life on this earth solely rests on the rock basis of international understanding. Moreover, Man intends to compare anything and everything under the sun for he knows that comparison is the very essence of life without which the life of mankind on earth would become further complicated and impossible. And it may look incredible first when both John Keats and Robert Frost are portrayed as Romanticists sans Escapism. But a careful reading of John Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale and Frost’s Birches could yield only the pivotal theme of romanticism, not escapism.

John Keats

The year 1816 is remarkable for one, who otherwise would have become a surgeon and the world would have been an unfortunate one to miss a great poet. It was none other than John Keats whose life as a poet though lasted for three years, has proved to be as great in the field of literature as William Shakespeare. As Mathew Arnold puts it, ‘He is; he is with Shakespeare.’ John Keats who was the son of the livery-stable keeper in London is considered to be the last born of the Romantics and the first one to die. As William Wordsworth is known as the poet of nature, John Keats is known as the poet of beauty. He himself has accepted that “I find I cannot exist without poetry – without eternal poetry – I began with a little, but habit has made me a Leviathan…. With a great poet, the sense of beauty overcomes every consideration, or rather obliterates all considerations”.

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