This dissertation aims to examine the central role of ephemerality in the work of the English poet John Keats, arguing that it constitutes a central element of his poetic vision and enduring legacy. Keats’s short life, marked by illness, bereavement and unfulfilled love, shaped his awareness of the fleeting nature of existence, something that became the very condition of his productions, infusing his reflecting on love, beauty and mortality with a very strong intensity. The study demonstrates that Keats’s writing embodies a paradoxical dynamic: moments of joy and aesthetic pleasure care never detached from the shadow of loss, as for beauty, which is always intertwined with decay. His work does not attempt to overcome or deny these contradictions; instead, it sustains them.
Questa tesi si propone di esaminare il ruolo centrale della tematica dell'effimero nell'opera del poeta inglese John Keats, sostenendo che essa sia un elemento centrale della sua visione poetica e della sua eredità letteraria. La breve vita del poeta, segnata da malattie, lutti e amori insoddisfatti, plasmò la sua consapevolezza della natura fugace dell'esistenza, diventando la condizione stessa delle sue produzioni letterarie, nelle quali è impossibile non notare la sua percezione dell'amore, della bellezza e della tematica della mortalità. Lo studio dimostra che la scrittura di John Keats incarna una dinamica paradossale: momenti di gioia e di piacere non sono mai lontani dall'ombra della loro perdita e fine.
A Name Writ in Water: Ephemerality in John Keats's Poetry
SUERGIU, CHIARA
2024/2025
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This dissertation aims to examine the central role of ephemerality in the work of the English poet John Keats, arguing that it constitutes a central element of his poetic vision and enduring legacy. Keats’s short life, marked by illness, bereavement and unfulfilled love, shaped his awareness of the fleeting nature of existence, something that became the very condition of his productions, infusing his reflecting on love, beauty and mortality with a very strong intensity. The study demonstrates that Keats’s writing embodies a paradoxical dynamic: moments of joy and aesthetic pleasure care never detached from the shadow of loss, as for beauty, which is always intertwined with decay. His work does not attempt to overcome or deny these contradictions; instead, it sustains them.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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