The Eve of St. Agnes certainly progresses and ends as a love story. Porphyro, a stubborn young man, is determined to win the love of Madeline, who is also seeking love through mystical means; they eventually end up in the same bed, knowing that their love will be rejected by their families, and they run away together. This motif has a familiar echo with one of Shakespeare's most famous works, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. But is it that simple? How do these two compare, honestly? There is something disturbing in the cold wind that blows as the young people fan the flames of their passions, in the deaths of Beadsman and Angela, or in the violent dreams of the Baron, desperate for the loss of his Madeline. Is Keats merely paying homage to this classical idea of ​​young lovers, or is it his personal commentary on their union, harking back to an inspirational writer essential to the tradition of English writing? And is it really a happy ending? By comparing these two works, you will find that Keats believed that the ending of Romeo and Juliet was necessary and more promising than his. To begin this discussion, it is best to see how the two works align in terms of their relative similarities. the basic plot structures remain the same. Porphyry, much like young Romeo, faces a banquet hosted by his mortal enemies, “the whole bloodthirsty race” (Keats s.11) to find love, courts said love, and runs away to be together and married. Other little things also compare; Both authors attribute the title of pilgrim to Porphyry, but in different ways. This is the first name Romeo receives from Juliet, "pilgrim," and, just like Porphyry, he sees his future beloved as possessing saintly qualities (I.4.210-222). Porphyro,......middle of paper......Grey, Erik. "Indifference and epistolary on the eve of Saint Agnes". Romanticism 5.2 (1999): 127. Academic research completed. EBSCO. Network. May 2, 2014.Keats, John. “The Eve of Saint Agnes”. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Romantic Period. 8th edition. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 888-898.Print.MacCracken, Henry Noble. “The Source for Keats's 'Eve of St. Agnes'.” Modern Philology 5.2(1907). 145-152. JSTOR. Network. May 2, 2014.Shakespeare, William. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Ed. Richard Hosley. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. Print.