Way Of Negative Capability
© Surazeus
2017 12 23
Way of Negative Capability
is to accept the nature of the world
as atoms which pulse with electric force,
swirling randomly in the boundless void,
and clump together in structures of things,
like worlds and organic bodies of creatures
who devour each other and breed new forms,
without imposing the meaning of morals
through judgment of what consists good or evil,
while noting process of cause and effect
of structures through construction and destruction
when we employ tools of scientific research
so we discover the nature of things
and sing the beauty of all life and death.
© Surazeus
2017 12 23
Way of Negative Capability
is to accept the nature of the world
as atoms which pulse with electric force,
swirling randomly in the boundless void,
and clump together in structures of things,
like worlds and organic bodies of creatures
who devour each other and breed new forms,
without imposing the meaning of morals
through judgment of what consists good or evil,
while noting process of cause and effect
of structures through construction and destruction
when we employ tools of scientific research
so we discover the nature of things
and sing the beauty of all life and death.
John Keats:
ReplyDelete“At once it struck me, what quality
went to form a Man of Achievement,
especially in literature, and which
Shakespeare possessed so enormously,
I mean Negative Capability,
that is when man is capable of being
in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts,
without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”