Kant

Kant In all three of these poems the ideals of mortality and immortality are compared and contrasted. As a human being Keats posses all the traits of humanity namely that which we call the human condition. He is subject to change, to time, and is susceptible to those desires and impulses which both support and hinders us. Further more, like everyone else he is ultimately at the mercy of death and it is this concept of man’s frail mortality which evokes the vulnerability which he feels. Keats knows that ‘Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes’ and what makes Keats’ pain more poignant is that there are creatures and objects which are not affected by such transience. They are able, simply by being who or what they are, to remain aloof from all human suffering and more significantly, stay permanent despite the effects of time. This is the status Keats wishes to obtain, that he might be capable of becoming a transcendental being like the Nightingale, Urn or the bright Star and thus ‘tease (himself) out of thought as doth eternity’. For Keats mortality is painful since not only do we as human beings have physical and mental limitations which cannot be broken, kant, keats, nightingale, urn, time, thus, star, keats’, since, one, mortality, human, however, despite, bright, both, between, being, status, state, refers, poet, ode, further, feels, able, two, remain, possible, never, nature, man, land, immortality, immortal, himself