When I first studied Romanticism, I didn’t think that the works of Locke and Berkeley could have influenced this artistic movement. Indeed romantic poets, such as John Keats, reveal their concerns with the British Empiricist. Claims that the external world, which constituted the content of poetry before the 17th century, altered. John Keats in his poem “Ode to a Grecian Urn” reflects this reaction by turning inward to the attractive domain invulnerable to philosophic …showed first 75 words of 544 total…

…showed last 75 words of 544 total…The urn makes him understand that beauty is the path to truth and the only thing Keats can be sure of; the poet is alluding to the internal beauty that gives pleasure to humans. The picture in itself is neither beautiful, nor ugly. Instead, the concept of beauty is in the observer who perceives the image; the author is confident about this and therefore wrote the poem to describe the beauty of his internal world.