of man raised in poverty;

Comparatively, Keats resembles the darker realm that the other poets prior hadn’t really touched upon. Byron and Shelley relied on the more whimsical aspects in the world around them to convey certain messages. Judging by Keats’ past experiences, having been raised into the working class rather than aristocracy, the mood of his poems seems to take on a form of expression from his childhood. His poems are more somber and delicate and lack the feelings of optimism that lingered in the poetry from other poets. In “Ode to a Nightingale”, Keats begins with “My heart aches, and drowsy numbness pains my sense,” – already beginning with a mellow tone that brings one down from lurking in the clouds but instead down to the more curious faults of man and the more shadowy things that seem to accumulate around the human population. While in Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty” has a darker feel, Keats seems to take things a step further and more blatantly address the things he has seen or knows drifts around him. Keats seems to become more questioning and indecisive in his poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” which brings mention to elves and “forlorn” fairylands. This more mythical standpoint is reminiscent of Shelley’s “Ozymandias” that seems to also have a fondness towards things in a more dream-like approach.