Influence of John Keats's Life and Medical Experience On His Poetry

Romantic poets are expressionist artists. They express themselves in poetry, illustrating their intuitive intellect, feelings and emotions as well as the vivid influences of their lives on their romantic poetry, which is usually burst with sensory images that enchant the reader and occupy a literary researcher¿s attention. Hence, looking at a romantic poet¿s particular works with one eye paints a foggy and ambiguous interpretation; for criticizing a poem objectively only and ignoring the poet¿s life, does not yield a full comprehension of them. Since romanticism and expressionism are the two sides of the coin of feelings and emotion, it is very efficient to apply the extrinsic approach of the expressive theory to biographically criticize Keats¿s romantic poetry and explore what are the milestones and the different circumstances, which are revealed in his biography and his letters that shaped his sensory poetry as well as the secrets of his medical experience behind his romantic poetic genius in using the images, which crowned him as one of the pioneering romantics, beside William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Psyche Shelley.