John KEATS EN

The world, a valley of soul formation

Tears, an element necessary for the evolution of the individual

John Keats  1795-1821

I can not exist without you.

I forget about everything but to see you:

my life seems to stop there,

I look ahead.

You’ve me absorbed.

Right now I have a feeling as to dissolve:

I would be very sad without hope to see you soon.

I’d be afraid to break away from you.

You have stolen away the ‘soul with a power that I can not resist;

 and yet I could resist till I saw you;

 and also since I have seen I tried often to reason

 against the reasons for my love.

 Now I am no longer capable.

 It would be too great a penalty.

 My love is selfish.

 I can not breathe without you.

Close examination:

J. Keats

The writer who most of all influenced poetry and literature at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Considered one of the main exponents of English and universal Romanticism, his life tells of tormented and fragile moments, where poetry remains almost the only and last tool of connection with the world. This is the focus of research on Keats' philosophy - the human and earthly experience as a valley of formation of the individual - a distinct concept from the traditional idea of the world as a valley of tears.