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    Title: "Of heaven with upward eyes for all that they desire": Sacredness and Eroticism in Keats`s The Eve of St. Agnes
    Authors: Chen, Kang-po
    Contributors: 文山評論:文學與文化
    Keywords: John Keats ; The Eve of St. Agnes ; sacredness ; eroticism
    Date: 2020-06
    Issue Date: 2020-11-12 14:30:45 (UTC+8)
    Abstract: Modern interpretations of John Keats`s The Eve of St. Agnes have been dominated by the dichotomy between the "idealist reading," which regards the sexual union between Porphyro and Madeline as a fulfilment of Romantic love and imagination that prevails over social restrictions, and the "sceptical reading," which considers such a union a potential rape of Madeline by Porphyro. In a departure from the preceding research, this paper focuses on Keats`s synthesis of the religious and the erotic and proposes that he construes religious sacredness as a unique experience of eroticism in both Christian and non-Christian contexts. First, the ritual of St. Agnes`s Eve signifies Keats`s eroticisation of Christian images, which reincorporates sexual desire into the concepts of resurrection and the second coming of Jesus. By doing so, Keats looks forward to a divine intimacy of sexual vitality, in contrast to the weak and sterile state represented by the Beadsman`s asceticism. Second, with pagan images such as Merlin, the mermaid, and Medusa, Keats complicates the interaction between Madeline and Porphyro by dissolving the oft-assumed power relationship between them. The Eve of St. Agnes shows a unique aspect of Keats`s idea of sacred experience, which is essentially sensual and erotic, and offers an alternative angle to approach the poet`s understanding of religion and its connection to poetic creation.
    Relation: 文山評論:文學與文化, 13(2), 153-181
    Data Type: article
    DOI 連結: https://doi.org/10.30395/WSR.202006_13(2).0007 
    DOI: 10.30395/WSR.202006_13(2).0007 
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