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From the mortal maidens of 1817 to the omnipotent goddesses of 1819, Keats uses successive female characters as symbols portraying the salvation and destruction, the passion and fear that the imagination elicits. Karla Alwes traces the change in these female figuresmultidimensional and mysteriously proteanand shows that they do more than comprise a symbol of the female as a romantic lover. They are the gauge of Keatss search for identity. As Keatss poetry changes with experience, from celebration to denial of the earth, the females change from meek to threatening to a final maternal and conciliatory figure. Keats consistently maintained a strict dichotomy between the flesh-and-blood women he referred to in his letters and the created females of his poetry, in the same way that he rigorously sought to abandon the real for the ideal in his poetry. In her study of Keatss poetry, Alwes dramatizes the poets struggle to come to terms with his two consummate idealswomen and poetry. She demonstrates how his female characters, serving as lovers, guides, and nemeses to the male heroes of the poems, embody not only the hope but also the disappointment that the poet discovers as he strives to

Author

Alwes, Karla

Publisher

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809318353

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities