The aim of this study is to examine and analyze Keats’s Scotland sonnets written during his Scotland walking tour which represents the turning point in his poetic career. For Keats, the tour had very complex motivation, background, and results. Especially the sonnets regarding Burns memorials in Scotland allegorize the crisis of his poetic identity. Keats’s crisis of self-consciousness was intensified by his confronting the residence of William Wordsworth and the actual circumstances of Robert Burns. Keats’s realization at Burns’s memorials of entangled web of human miseries and aesthetic perceptions did not resolve the problem. Rather, it put him more deeply into the problem of self-consciousness.
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Abstract I. Introduction II. The Mirror and/or Lamp III. The Laputan Printing Press IV. The Sense of Misplacement V. Conclusion Works Cited
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John KeatsSonnetsScotlandRobert BurnsSelf-Consciousness.