John Keats: It's a Hard Knock Life

As I read a brief introductory summary into the life of John Keats I could not help to notice how hard it was for him to grow up during the 1800s. He had a mother that walked out on him and his brothers and sisters for four years just to be with another man. I also like the fact that he studied medicine and tried to become a doctor, but abandoned his practice for apothecary-surgeon for poetry. I wondered why he wanted to become a a poet and not a surgeon, but he seemed to be influenced by friends. Leigh Hunt, the editor of the Examiner, was his first successful author influence. I also thought it was interesting to find out that when he turned 18 in 1816 the sonnet, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," made him finally find his voice in poetry. As Keats' go older he started to how his maturity in his works through all senses like tactile, gustatory, kinetic, visceral, visual, and auditory. John Keats also showed his deep passion for poetry in many of his writings such as in the poem, "When I have fears that I may cease to be." This poem describes a intimate description to nature, preferably autumn, is to the self like expressed in poems by poets like Wordsworth. Keats' seems to have the same passion for nature but describes it in a much more deep and intimate way but is this a better way to describe nature unlike how Wordsworth does?