Favourite poet

"Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance."
Quoted from John Keats. I truly agree that poets must be short and concise, only then the reader will truly enjoy it and think about it and remember it. John Keats was a truly remarkable man. His father died when he was 8 and his mother died when he was 14 but still he completed his education. At a tender age of 21 he gave up all he had and started to write poets. He only had 6 years before his death to complete all of his greatest works. To be able to complete so much is amazing feat. Despite his sad life, he continued to write romantic poems.He is truly a optimistic man. Towards the end of his life, i realized that he started to write more pessimistic poems ." And seal the hushèd casket of my soul. " quoted from his poem 'To Sleep'. This most probably signifies his pain and agony and wanted to die a painless death. i believe that his brother death was also another fact to the change in style of his poems


Keats was born in London in 1795, his father Thomas Keats a livery stable keeper, died in an accident when John was eight years old, and his mother died when he was 14. John Keats was appointed a guardian and kept at school for a further year, after which he was apprenticed to an Apothecary Surgeon for five years. On finishing his apprenticeship and reaching the age of 20 he was entered into Guy's Hospital as a Medical Student. Once he became certified to practice medicine, he did so for less than a year turning all his attention towards Poetry. Unfortunately this great poet only had five years in which to write some of the poems the world has ever seen. When John found out that his brother Tom had tuberculosis he went to him in order to nurse him putting his medical skills to use. Tom died in December 1817 and unknown to John he had caught the disease from his brother. Soon after his brothers death, John Keats became engaged to Fanny Brawne and for the next year he produced the greatest of his works. John began to suspect he had caught his brothers tuberculosis, and in February 1820 he suffered his first haemorrhage, his doctor advised him that to spend the winter in England would surely kill him. Keats borrowed what money he could and travelled to Italy where he died of a haemorrhage the following February while in Rome.

The three poems
http://www.poetry-archive.com/k/to_sleep.html
http://www.poetry-archive.com/k/to_autumn.html
http://www.poetry-archive.com/k/la_belle_dame_sans_merci.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats