Keats's Ode to Melancholy is best described by one word, melancholy. The Oxford English Dictionary defines melancholy as a feeling of thoughtful sadness, usually without an obvious cause. In this poem melancholy is the art of embracing pain and a sort of madness in order to cherish the joy of truly living. Keats realized the idea of ​​melancholy by using his imagery to reinforce the idea of ​​supporting opposites such as sorrow and joy in a person's life. At the beginning of the poem, the speaker warns, “No, no, go not into Lethe,” which is the forgetful water of Hades (Keats 932). The direction the speaker gives to a person is very clear and direct, as if they were following a wrong path or series of actions and needed to change or correct a mistake. Here the speaker clearly warns against the attack of Melancholy as if it were a force of nature. As a force of nature, beauty is smothered by “a weeping cloud” or the attack of Melancholy when it “favors the drooping-headed flowers” ​​(Keats 932). The force of its attack stifles the beauty seen in spring flowers. Furthermore, to personify Melancholy, she is called “thy mistress shows rich rage, / imprison her soft hand and let her rave, / and feed deeply, deeply, deeply on her peerless eyes” (Keats 932). ). The representation of this lover is another personification, but this time it is Death as Goddess. These confusing lines of the poem could refer to Melancholy or Death in this stanza as they range from an untouchable Goddess to a Goddess with a human nature that includes anger and pain. A stark opposition to the Melancholy or wrath of Death is the soft hand that the speaker asks someone to hold. This opposition shows Keats highlighting the delicate correspondence between happiness, death and melancholy having humanistic aspects. To experience true pain one must experience true joy in seeing the beauty of melancholy. However, Keats' poetry is not all dark imagery, as intertwined in this poem is an emerging possibility of resurrection and the possibility of new life. The speaker of this poem begins by strongly advising against actions and as the poem continues he urges a person to take different actions. In this poem, the speaker talks about embracing life while needing the experience of melancholy to appreciate the true joy and beauty of