John Keats poem's "First Looking into Chapman's Homer", "Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time"

John Keat's poems, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, and On Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time, express an irresistible, poetical imagination. They convey a sense of atmosphere to the reader. In comparison they exemplify his intense love of beauty. The connection between these two poems is not so much in subject, but the feeling of awe. Both these poems show more emotion and amazement in the experience of discovering something new. Keats …

…He writes with an intense delight at the sheer existence of things outside himself, and seems to lose himself in his own mortality and the identification of the object he contemplates. His imagination is unleashed on the works of poetry and art that so amazed him. Keats style of poetry speaks of truth in beauty. His motto is captured in a line of his own poetry -'A thing of beauty is a joy forever.'