“ Always hot and still to be enjoyed; Forever breathless and forever young…” These words from the poem Ode to a Grecian Urn were written by John Keats, a nineteenth-century English poet. This phrase expresses the romanticism and love of life represented by John Keats. Keats lived during the Romantic period, a time focused on the individual, emotions, and nature. Although Keats died very young, during his short life he wrote many poems, especially odes. An ode is a type of poem that can be about an object; a person or something you feel extremely passionate about. In Ode to a Grecian Urn, Keats addresses an inanimate object, an urn that has no life, but speaks of it using energy images such as "hot," "panting," and "young." In a single sentence he brings the urn to life by praising it as “forever young”. Keats had a difficult life filled with much death. However he incorporated both his life experience and his romantic visions into his work. Ode to a Grecian Urn is an example of Keats' poems that shows all the paradoxes that can be seen in each of his works. John Keats was born on 31 October 1795 and died on 23 February 1821 at the age of twenty-five. . He had a sister and three brothers, one of whom died as a child. He had a difficult life surrounded by constant death. His father who worked at a stud farm died in 1804, when John was only nine years old. Six years later, when John was fifteen, his mother died of tuberculosis. After his parents died, John's grandmother hoped he would enter the medical profession to find financial security. Keats became an apprentice at Guy's Hospital in London. Before completing his apprenticeship, Keats left and dedicated himself...... middle of paper ......perhaps the message Keats leaves behind is that in every true creation there is an element of beauty.BibliographyBio.com. A&E Networks Television and Web. May 03, 2014."Introduction to Keats." Introduction to Keats. Np, nd Web. 03 May 2014."John Keats - A History of English Literature." John Keats - A History of English Literature. Np, nd Web. 03 May 2014. "Biography of John Keats | Author of Ode on a Grecian Urn." BookRags. BookRags, ndWeb. May 3, 2014."John Keats." Foundation for Poetry. Poetry Foundation, nd Web. 03 May 2014."John Keats." The Last Romantics. Np, nd Web. 03 May 2014.Keats, The Biography of John. "The Biography of John Keats." Poemhunter.com. Np and Web. 03 May 2014.Poets.org. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. April 30. 2014.