Ode To John Keats
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"Ode to Melancholy" is a short poem. In it the author, John Keats, pays respect to the polar emotion that is melancholy. It sounded like Keats was saying that without melancholy a person could not have joy. "She dwells with BeautyBeauty that must die;/ And Joy." She being melancholy. Keats sees that melancholy and joy coexist as well as are contingent on the other. A person doesn't know its cold unless he remembers what was hot.
Keats' life was full of disease, death, despair, and a daily awareness of pain; a daily awareness of joy. His father died, his mother died. He took care of his brother, Tom, who also died...