![]() ![]() ![]() Tuberculosis remains with us today, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia where more than a million people die of this disease each year. Keats is austere in poetry and yet he keeps high colouring and variety of appeal to the senses and the mind. His experiences often accord closely with his personal, life and the disasters he had. ![]() All the senses-tactile gustatory, kinetic, organic, as well as visual and auditory combine to give the total apprehension of his experience. In Keats' poems we see a concreteness of description of the object he contemplates. In acute distress and emotional turmoil, in 1819 masterpiece followed masterpiece. Hailed as Consumption's Poster Child, Keats' life, like Beethoven's, served as a pattern tor the Romantic artist. ―Youth grows pale and spectre thin and dies‖ – John Keats, (Ode to Nightingale) Tuberculosis was one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented diseases of all times. ![]()
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