Keats even says that beauty will never die saying, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever... it will never pass away into nothingness" (Keats 1 and 2). It seems that thinking about good things helped distract Keats from the darkness of his life. Later in “Endymion,” he says, “Some form of beauty takes away the veil/ From our dark spirits” (Keats 12 and 13). It is certainly interesting to see how much of Keats's poetry seems autobiographical. Keats does not write only about the brevity of life, nor does he limit his arguments simply to beauty; no, he also delves into topics that were weighing heavily on his mind as he tried to research what was truly important in life. Was it love, fame, nature, ideals? An example of this type of reflection can be found at the end of the first book in “Endymion”. Keats says, “if earthly love hath power to make/ the being of men mortal, immortal… what mere caprice / seems all this poor striving for fame,” (Keats 843-846). In his poem “On Death” we see that Keats tries to reconcile himself with the fleetingness of life's joys and the inevitability of death. Keats certainly knew these cases well, for tragedies in his life were frequent. It is easy to see why he would observe, “…life is but a dream/And scenes of bliss pass like a ghost” (Keats 1-2). In the poem “Sleep and Poetry,” as he reflects on the glorious qualities of life in which he found so much joy, Keats wonders, “shall I ever say farewell to these joys? / Yes, I must pass them for a nobler life” (122-23). Perhaps Keats was reflecting on his own death and all the wonderful things he feared he would never experience again. A similar reflection is seen in his poem “When I am afraid that I may cease to exist”, where he seems to reflect on how terrible it would be to never see his “beautiful creature” or “not