• Mythili S
• Dr. M. John Suganya

The research paper depicts the movement of the speaker between the real and the ideal world. John Keats is one of the greatest poets of the romantic era. Keats often associated love and pain both in life and in his poetry. He repeatedly combines different senses in one image. The vital force behind his poetry was his power to apply imagination to every aspect of life. The series of odes written by John Keats are heavily loaded with sensualities. Most of his odes move between the two worlds; the real world and the ideal world. The real world is where the poet actually lives in and the ideal world is what he desires to be. The structure of his odes explains how he restores the friendly relationship between natural and material world, even in pain. The article depicts how John Keats moves from real world to the ideal world in his Odes. In Ode to Psyche the speaker moves to the ideal world of mind and imagination. In Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on Grecian Urn the speaker returns to the real world because he finds the ideal dissatisfying. Finally in his last Ode, Ode to Melancholy the speaker remains in the real world. He longed for the ideal world but at the end he embraced the natural, finite world.

Real and the Ideal world, sensuous appeal, friendly relationship, imagination.

"The Real and Ideal World in The Odes of John Keats", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no.83-88, December-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFG06017.pdf

"The Real and Ideal World in The Odes of John Keats", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no. pp83-88, December-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFG06017.pdf