Romance in literature, analysing Whitman

Romantic literature, particularly poetry, often sees man in communication with natural world, rather than with other men. It trusts insticts, the emotions and the heart rather than reason, intellect and head. ”The romantic believes and trusts only himself, believing that society and civilization corrupt humanity’s natural innocence and instinct for good”. (English Literature-Martin Stephen .220)
John Keats in his poems is captured by love, truth and beauty. ”It appears to suggest that the whole meaning of life can be summed up by the definition and expression of what is beautiful, and that the real truth and real beauty are the same thing, where one is to be found, so will the other.” (English Literature, M.S. 235). Keats is trying to say that beauty is what life has to offer, and search for it should be the spiritual aim of all men. Like he said in his poem Ode on a Grecian Urn “Beauty is truth-truth is beauty-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”....