Apophasis Approach: Drawing Similarities in Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats and To a Skylark by P.B. Shelley and Challenging the Keats’ Escapism
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47067/jlcc.v5i2.169Keywords:
Apophasis, Escapism, Nightingale, Skylark, Addressee, Speaker, Song, MysticismAbstract
Apophasis is a rhetoric device aimed at serving different purposes from the relationship between the speaker and the addressee to the mysticism. The understanding of this relationship may be direct and indirect. Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale and Shelley’s To a Skylark have never been explored from apophasis approach. The established notion of negative capability known as escapism from this world to the world of the song of nightingale as a distinctive feature of Keats poetry is challenged and replaced with the pure experience in this paper. This challenge is going to initiate a debate in future research. This paper also discusses the fact that despite similarity of experience in Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale and Shelley’s To a Skylark, the researchers and critics do not associate Shelley’s To a Skylark to escapism. The apophasis approach is useful in drawing this similarity and develop an understanding of romanticism from the two song specific poems of these romantic poets.
References
Abdullayevna, X. S. (2022). Linguistic Approach in The Study of Literature. Eurasian Research Bulletin, 4, 4-6.
Ackerman, H. C. (1919). The psychology of mysticism and the divine immanence. Harvard Theological Review, 12(4), 427-434.
Anthony D. N., (1980). Overheard by God: fiction and prayer in Herbert, Milton, Dante and St. John. Methuen. p. 96.
Brereton, Joel (1990). The upanishads. approaches to the Asian classics. New York: Columbia University Press.
Britannica TE. (Ed.) (2017). To a skylark. Encyclopedia Britannica.
Brooks, C., (1939). Modern poetry and tradition. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press.
Bush D., (1960). Keats and his ideas: English romantic poets. New York: Oxford University Press.
Fogle R. (1953). Keats's ode to a nightingale. PMLA., 68(1), 211-222
Hebron S. (2014). An introduction to to a skylark.
Mambro N., (2021). Analysis of Shelley’s to a skylark.
Merriam Webster Dictionary. https://www.merriam-webster.com/
Panczová, H. (2022). The three theophanies in gregory of Nyssa’a life of Moses. Teologie ?i Via??, 98(1-4), 84-95.
Pugh T, & Johnson M. E., (2018). Literary studies: A practical guide. New York: Routledge.
Ray, B. (2022). A stylistic analysis of Tagore's gitanjali. Language in India, 22(5).
Savariyar, D. (2022). Hope in a secular age: Deconstruction, negative theology, and the future of faith by David Newheiser. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 42(1), 229-230.
Sharma, L. R. (2022). Supremacy of imagination in romantic poetry. Glob Acad J Linguist Lit, 4.
Shawa W. A. (2015). Stylistics analysis of the poem to a skylark by P.B. Shelley. IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 20(3), 124-137
Tabak, M., (2015). Plato’s parmenides reconsidered. New York, Palgrave Macmillan.
Toscano, P. S. (2022). Pity, singular disability, and the makings of Shakespearean tragedy in Julius Caesar. SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 61(2), 203-240.
Wren P, & Martin H. (1981). High school English grammar and composition. New Delhi: S. Chand & Company.
Wynne, A., (2011). The ?tman and its negation. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 33(1–2).
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2023 Journal of Languages, Culture and Civilization

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.