John Keats

John Keats’ life was filled with the loss of loved ones from a very young age. Watching those around him die and knowing that he himself was going to die from the same disease that plagued most of his family, the thought of death consumed Keats’ entire being. Due to this horrible reality that he was forced to face, Keats became obsessed with immortality. Instead of facing his own impending death, Keats wrote about the everlasting beauty of classical art in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”.
John Keats was a major English poet despite his death at the early age of twenty-five. Keat’s poetry describes the beauty of the natural world and art as the vehicle for his poetic imagination Due to his skill with poetic imagery and sound he reproduces this sensuous experience for his reader. Keats’ poetry evolves over his brief career from this love of nature and art into a deep compassion for humanity Twentieth-century poet T. S. Eliot judged Keats’ letters to be “the most no...