John Keats, a good observer and interpreter of Mother Nature, makes a life-time quest for the beauty of nature and themeaning of life in his poems. Likewise, Tagore, a world-renowned Indian poet, is also a nature-wors...John Keats, a good observer and interpreter of Mother Nature, makes a life-time quest for the beauty of nature and themeaning of life in his poems. Likewise, Tagore, a world-renowned Indian poet, is also a nature-worshiper and writes under thedeep influence of European Romanticism.This paper is to explore the similarities and differences of the two poets' contemplationupon life and death in their view of nature, focusing on Ode to a Nightingale by Keats and Fruit-Gathering by Tagore, aiming tobetter understand the two great poet's poetics in a comparative dimension.展开更多
文摘John Keats, a good observer and interpreter of Mother Nature, makes a life-time quest for the beauty of nature and themeaning of life in his poems. Likewise, Tagore, a world-renowned Indian poet, is also a nature-worshiper and writes under thedeep influence of European Romanticism.This paper is to explore the similarities and differences of the two poets' contemplationupon life and death in their view of nature, focusing on Ode to a Nightingale by Keats and Fruit-Gathering by Tagore, aiming tobetter understand the two great poet's poetics in a comparative dimension.
