Part one of term paper
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 me in and, ...

Part two of term paper
... Ode on Melancholy by Anselm Haverkamp. Each articles’ emphasis was about a different aspect of Keats’s “Melancholy.” The first article by Gaillard focused mainly on the structure of the poem and the deleted first stanza, whereas, the article by Anselm Haverkamp mainly discussed the meaning of the poem and the feeling of melancholy. Both articles helped me to understand “Melancholy” better. They also convinced me that Robert Burton had an influence on Keats’s poem. In Keats’s Od ...