John Keats

Keats was an extremely talented writer for it is a shame he died so young. I was thinking to myself maybe if he were to have continued medicine and apothecary would his life been a tad bit longer? Of course if he lived in our time and age, he would probably be living longer due to the medical advances we have today. Anyways, while reading his works, I could sense sadness in his writings. This may have been due to his childhood. He had to bear the loss of his father at a young age and his mom took off for a few years and came back sick later for him to take care of her on her death bed. He has a sad tone in most of the poems. One poem that touched me was “Ode on Melancholy”. He also has a love for nature. Every stanza mentions a part of nature from animals to the weather. He was a very sensitive person. I think he is talking about a man who has lost his loved one from the line
“his soul shall taste the sadness of her might,
And be among her cloudy trophies hung” (442).
After she died, the heavens poured out as if it was crying and he pointed out that

“Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud” (442).
It was a sad poem, but beautifully written. John Keats was a fantastic author who lived a short life, he would’ve accomplished a lot more.