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Old 20-Jun-2008, 10:34
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Default Re: beauty is truth, truth beauty
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Originally Posted by mohsinmalik82 View Post
hello sir...

Can you please explain to me what John Keats meant by his quotation

Beauty is truth, Truth beauty.

in his famous ode???

Please explain it for me in easy words with example if you can...

I shall be thankful to you...
Keats is suggesting that something that is beautiful contains an essential truthfulness [an essential honesty], and that Truth is itself a thing of beauty.
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