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The advancement of Artificial Intelligence has disrupted every aspect of life and forced us to reexamine our position in the new technological order. The research examines the capability of the AI tool ChatGPT to generate poems following the Keatsian template. Two poems generated by ChatGPT have been examined alongside Keats’s poem, and it is found that ChatGPT can easily match the technical and descriptive aspects of his poetry; however, it lacks the training to integrate poetic elements such as negative capability, experientiality, paradoxity, and cultural references. ChatGPT could not match Keats's philosophical depth, but certainly added a new dimension to poems while generating original ideas. ChatGPT avoided imitation while developing its own structure and terminology to generate poems. The claim that AI can be accepted as an author at par with humans is not sustainable at this stage.
Dr. Prithiviraj Singh Chauhan. “Reconfiguring Authorship in the Age of Post-humanism and Artificial Intelligence: A Comparative Study of John Keats and ChatGPT-Generated Poems.” The Criterion: An International Journal in English, vol. 17, no. 3, June 2026, pp. 452-477. DOI, https://doi.org/10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.28.
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