I can't prove it, any more than you can prove that your God exists.
All I'm saying is that all the biographies and writings, criticism I've ever read about Keats clearly state that he was not a practising, or even believing Christian.
ibasleep wrote:Saturn wrote:ibasleep wrote: The Eremite is possibly Keats even showing his own self as a someone religous and strong in their beliefs, which I believe he might have done as he feared death, therefore he sought for the refuge of eternal life through religion.
No, no and no again - Keats was NOT religious
Even if Keats is not a religious person, he still was brought up in a religious community and understood classical literature including the bible. Along with the fact that a poet does not have to be themselves in there poems, so who is to say that Keats did not feel like experimenting with a different perspective in this particular poem. Or even if Keats foreseeing his own death became scared and turned to God as many people do. There I believe based upon those assumptions, and my own personal interpretation, which I have supported, that this poem is religious in theme.
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