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Keats' Negative Capability

Keats lived in 19th century England, which was undergoing revolutionary social and political changes. He combined the imaginative thoughts of the first generation romantic poets with his 'Negative Capability' theory. He was not looking to stir some exotic emotion or aspiration or to escape reality, but was simply trying to use his imagination to find truth and beauty in one place As Keats explained 'Negative Capability' from 'Soul-making' is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries and doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. It is considered an accident of rare occurrence in the actual world. That is, it looks for things in the real world that do not exist, it assumes things are possible that are impossible, it tries to understand things that cannot be understood, and it tries to surmise things that are unsurmisable. It can be explained as spiritual capability that is in harmony with unreal and negative phenomena or situations, in which objects are appreciated and incorporated into Keats' poetic imagination Beauty unifies and harmonizes Keats' imaginative world while also internalizing the real world. In addition to, Keats uses 'Negative Capability' to transform the negative aspects of reality into positive ones in his imaginative world. This affirmative recreation allows relative dual essential elements, such as his pleasure and sorrow, delight and grief, body and soul, life and death, light and dark to harmonize and unify.