Keats

Keats is certainly the conformist of the Romanticism Era of poetry. Unlike his Romantic counterparts, who write to encompass the true aspects of nature, John Keats chooses to write to truly fulfill his own enjoyment. Keats's main goal is to satisfy the beauty of poetry. Keats's personal life has been affected being that his brother passed away at a young age due to tuberculosis, which made a lasting impact on his life. Keats is known to include some dark imagery and tone in his poem, and it can be assumed that the death in his family is the reason behind his dark inclusions. His gloomy inclusions seem to contrast with the rest of his poems, though, which involve a cheery and happy view of nature. The contrast of tones seem to accomplish the beauty of nature and life itself. This contrast is definitely apparent in is ode Ode to a Nightingale in which he includes sorrowful and dark images of death at the beginning, but follows those descriptions with hopeful thoughts of death. He uses the nightingale as a piece of happiness in death.