The Beauty Between the Ephemeral and the Perpetual: Aesthetic Reflections in Keats' “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and Leopardi's “Wild Broom”
The following paper aims to approach, in a comparative and hermeneutical way, the poems “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1820) by John Keats and “Wild Broom Or the Flower of the Desert” (1836) by Giacomo Leopardi, focusing on the literary pairing of ephemerality and perpetuity. Based on the comparison of lit...
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Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Letras
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/notalmargen/article/view/42484 |
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| Sumario: | The following paper aims to approach, in a comparative and hermeneutical way, the poems “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1820) by John Keats and “Wild Broom Or the Flower of the Desert” (1836) by Giacomo Leopardi, focusing on the literary pairing of ephemerality and perpetuity. Based on the comparison of literary resources, imagery and recurrent topics that construct these pairings, we hypothesize that, while Keats deals with a relatively imperishable object, Leopardi composes his canto about a flower that will eventually die; beauty is presented differently, depending on whether it is something eternal and ideal or a less monumental and more fleeting beauty. Based on a poetic analysis and a theoretical contribution, we intend to compare the different aesthetic considerations which are inherent in each poem and author. |
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