In a letter written to Richard Woodhouse on 27 October 1818, John Keats addresses the idea of ​​his poetic identity. According to Keats, “A poet is the least poetic thing there is; he has no identity... impulsive creatures are poetic and have within them an immutable attribute - the poet has none; …he is certainly the most unpoetic of all God's Creatures” (Keats 1818). Therefore, Keats sees himself as a poet without self, writing not out of his own identity. In his mind: “the poetic character itself (I mean that kind of which, if I am anything, I am a member; that kind distinct from the Wordworthian or egoistic sublime; which is a thing in itself and stands alone) is not itself - it has no self—it is everything and nothing—it has no character.” (Keats 1818) Keats differentiates himself from “Wordsworthian” poetic identity, establishing that he writes poetry of impersonality that “records the writer's receptivity to the uncertainties of experience” (Greenblatt 942n9), rather than “a poem that is evidently shaped by poetic identity of the writer". personal interests and beliefs” (Greenblatt 942n9). Keats refers to this concept as “negative capability,” further elaborating his ideas in an 1817 letter to George and Thomas Keats. For a poet to understand reality, he must be open-minded and be able to dwell on or with "uncertainties, mysteries, [and] doubts, without any irritable search for fact and reason" (Keats 1817). Beauty overcomes the need to find definitive answers to the questions raised by the poems, and two contradictory ideas can be present in the reader's mind at the same time (Greenblatt 942n9). Keats's journey into his identity as a poet of “Negative Capability” can be seen in his poetic works, an early exa...... middle of paper ......and next Valley-Glades” (75-78 ). The speaker wonders whether the entire episode was a vision or an awakened dream: "Do I wake up or do I sleep?" (80).“Ode to a Nightingale” is more a poem of feeling than of concrete thought. As is usually the case in “Negative Capability,” this poem surrounds the reader with a feeling of uncertainty and a constant wonder about what is and what is not. When Keats concludes this poem, both the speaker and the reader wonder whether this poem, or, for that matter, life, is a dream. There are no definitive answers, and Keats embraces the beauty of the nightingale on a subconscious level. Therefore, the reader can see that, to create true poetry, Keats keeps himself in a constant state of internal conflict, never reaching fact or reason, producing poems consistent with his identity as a poet of “Negative Capability”.”.