Part 1 of Essay
After reading the title of John Keats’s “Ode on Melancholy,” I was immediately intrigued. I thought it odd to base a poem on the feeling of melancholy. The poem touched me and after I completed reading it, I felt depressed and sad. I feel that it was Keats’s choice and arrangement of words and lines that helped to draw ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... articles helped me to understand “Melancholy” better. They also convinced me that Robert Burton had an influence on Keats’s poem. In Keats’s Ode on Melancholy, Gaillard explains that the original “Melancholy” was composed of four stanzas, the first of which Keats’s decided to remove before the poem was published. According to Gaillard, the original “stanza did survive in Brown’s transcripts, but many critics have made only passing references to it, avoiding discussion of the structure, language, theme and image ....