Keats Keats Keats

Unlike the other poets we have studied, Keats grew up to a working class family and did not have everything handed to him on a silver platter, like our other aristocratic poets. His poems are, in my opinion, much more depressing than the others we have read. In Ode to the Nightingale, Keats starts with a rather melancholy opening. However, the mood changes to a tad happier for a little, but then unfortunately goes back to being dark and depressing. He seems to view death as a positive and a negative, and his statements contradict eachother. The poem is full of contradictions. I feel like he was really trying to get the reader to think deeply and in a new way about the idea of death and other unfortunate things that happen to us. Its also pretty ironic that he died at an early age. Through out the poem the diction is very sophisticated. The purpose of his poems were to get the reader thinking, which I think he accomplishes.