Keats' Letters

Keats letter to Fanny Brawne is a passionate one and it seems he was head to toe in love with Fanny Brawne. The way he wrote the letter was as if he couldn’t live without her, that she was his air and lived under his skin.

Both Shelley and Keats were great writers. Keats letter to Shelley reveals that their relationship was quite close for Shelley would invite Keats to stay with him when he learned that Keats was going to Italy. Another evidence of the closeness of their relationship is that Shelley advised Keats not to publish his work, Endymion.

In his letter to Shelley, Keats wrote that ‘My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.’ He implies that imagination is more powerful than most powerful thing. I’ve read some of his poems last semester like Bright Star, Ode To A Nightingale, Ode To Autumn and Ode On A Grecian Urn which he wrote about his imagination, the relation between thought and sensation and his own identity.

I think to be a writer like Keats, one has to ‘too frequently think too much’ and ‘think about a lot deeply’. It sounds a bit insane to me because thinking too much about what have happened and what is yet to happen is both very unhealthy. If we keep on dwelling with negative thoughts, we will feel depressed and it will become a habit which most people do not realize. Too much thinking and analyzing will just make any problem worse. I believe that today is wonderful and I want to live it in the present.