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. They all died of consumption. However, the Romantic in Keats saw past their deaths; he saw past it to find love. He did not “…let the beetle, not the death-moth be/ Your mournful Psyche…” but instead found love whose name to him was Fanny Brawne. His life was hard and short. He chose the melancholy as a topic because it is a necessity of a complete life. He was dying of consumption, his family’s “Wolf’s-bane….” He was aware that his life was to end soon. He must have been wracked with melancholy. No one inexperienced with melancholy could describe it as “A par

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