Inmortalidad y empatía: el concepto de belleza en «Endymion»

Abstract

Building on several studies [Ackroyd, 2011; Almeida, 1991; Bate, 1966; Bate, 2021; Mahoney, 2017; Motion, 2011; O’Connor, 2020; Stillinger, 2007; Roe, 2012; Ward, 1964], five ways of comprehending keatsian beauty are proposed: beauty as intensity, beauty as immortality, beauty linked to life and it’s suffering, beauty as a renunciation of egoism, and beauty as truth, or reality. Keats’ concept of beauty, studied under the lenses of narrative identity [Ricoeur, 1999], is found in Endymion in two ways. The first is explicit — Endymion directly states that beauty is immortal, and that love, a form of beauty because of its capacity to move our spirit, is the foundation of life — and the second is demonstrative —Endymion demonstrates the empathy necessary for the creation of beautiful things.

Keywords

• keats
• endymion
• beauty
• identity narrative