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By 张佳欣2023级 20天前 23次浏览

In British Romantic Poetry (Part Two), through the depiction of which sensory images does Keats’ To Autumn embody his poetic idea of "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"?

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  • 李振明 20天前

    In Keats’ To Autumn, the poetic idea of "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is embodied through vivid, multisensory images that capture the authentic essence of the season, blending sensory perception with unadorned truth. Visually, the poem paints scenes of ripeness and abundance: "fruit with ripeness to the core," "full-grown lambs," and "the granary floor" lined with harvested crops, all reflecting the natural truth of autumn as a time of completion and fruition—beauty here lies in the unvarnished reality of nature’s cycles, not idealized fantasy. Auditorily, Keats weaves in soft, rhythmic sounds: "the wailful choir of small gnats mourn," "hedge-crickets sing," and "the red-breast whistles" in the twilight, which are not grand or melodramatic but the quiet, genuine sounds of autumn’s fading moments, revealing beauty in the truth of nature’s subtle harmonies. Olfactory and tactile senses further deepen this connection: the "sweet kernel" of fruit, the "mellowing sun" that warms the world, and the "mist and mellow fruitfulness" that wraps the landscape evoke a tangible, sensory truth—these images are not abstract but rooted in lived experience, making beauty feel immediate and authentic. Together, these sensory depictions reject artificial ornamentation; instead, they embrace the raw, unfiltered truth of autumn’s character—its ripeness, its gentle decay, its quiet abundance. For Keats, this alignment of sensory beauty with the inherent truth of nature (the season’s inevitable rhythms, its blend of plenty and transience) is exactly what embodies "Beauty is truth, truth beauty": beauty is not a separate ideal but the purest expression of truth, and truth, when rendered with sensory vividness, becomes inherently beautiful.

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  • tMNISFXs 20天前

    Keats’ To Autumn embodies the poetic idea of "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" through three core categories of sensory imagery, all of which converge to reveal the inherent truth of nature’s cyclical beauty:

    1. Visual imagery: The poem paints vivid visual scenes of autumn’s tangible charm, such as "fruit with ripeness to the core", "laden boughs" bending with apples, sun-kissed gourds and hazel shells filled with sweet kernels, and the "last oozings hours by hours" of the cider press. These images capture the truth of autumn’s ripening and fading cycle—beauty lies not just in full bloom, but also in the gentle decline that is an inevitable part of nature’s order.

    2. Auditory imagery: Keats weaves subtle sounds of autumn to reflect its quiet vitality, including the "wailful choir" of small gnats mourning the fading season, the "loud bleat" of lambs from the hillside, the "hedge-crickets’ song", the red-breast’s "whistles", and the swallows’ "twittering". These sounds are not grand or dramatic, but they truthfully represent the soft, rhythmic life pulse of autumn, proving that beauty exists in the unassuming, authentic sounds of nature’s transition.

    3. Tactile imagery: Implicit tactile sensations enhance the poem’s truthfulness, like the warm glow of the "maturing sun" that lingers on the landscape, the softness of the "clammy cells" where bees once lingered, and the gentle weight of overripe fruits on the branches. These tactile details make autumn’s beauty tangible and real, rather than an abstract concept—they reveal the truth that beauty is rooted in the sensory, physical experience of the natural world.

    Together, these sensory images demonstrate that autumn’s beauty is not superficial; it is the truth of nature’s cyclical, inevitable, and harmonious rhythm—exactly what Keats means by "Beauty is truth, truth beauty".

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