Negative Capability
If there's one thing that you need to know about Keats' poetic philosophy, it's these two little words: negative capability. Believe us, it'll show up on a test someday soon. For Keats, it was a ph...
Nature
We're cheating a little bit here. See, nature is also part of Keats' whole understanding of negative capability: looking at a huge, scary mountain or the tumult of a stormy sea are a way to face bi...
Figurative Language
If there's one thing we know about John Keats, it's that he's fond of a good metaphor. Practically every line in his poem offers up a new form of figurative language. This dense web of metaphors an...