Keats's Ode to Melancholy is best described by one word, melancholy. The Oxford English Dictionary defines melancholy as a feeling of pensive sadness, usually without an obvious cause. In this poem, melancholy is the art of accepting sorrow and a kind of madness in order to be able to cherish the joy of truly living. Keats realized the idea of ​​melancholy by using his imagery to reinforce the idea of ​​maintaining opposites such as sorrow and joy in a person's life. At the beginning of the poem, the speaker warns, “No, no, do not go to Lethe” which is the forgetful water of Hades (Keats 932). The direction the speaker gives a person is very clear and direct, as if they are going down a wrong path or set of actions and need to change or correct. 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 drowned out by “a weeping cloud” or by the attack of melancholy when it “favors drooping-headed flowers” ​​(Keats 932). The strength of its cut drowns out the beauty of the spring flowers. Additionally, in order to personify melancholy, she is called "thy mistress, rich anger shows, / Imprison her gentle hand and let her rave, / And feed deep, deep, deep from her peerless eyes" (Keats 932 ). ). The depiction of this mistress is another personification, but this time it is Death as Goddess. These confusing lines from the poem could refer to melancholy or death in this stanza, as either changes from an untouchable goddess to a goddess with a human nature that includes anger and pain. A distinct opposition to melancholy or the cholera of death is the gentle hand that the speaker asks someone to hold. This opposition shows Keats emphasizing the delicate correspondence between happiness, death and melancholy having a humanistic character. In order to experience true sorrow, one must feel true joy to see the beauty of melancholy. However, Keats's poem is not all dark imagery, as this poem contains an emerging possibility of resurrection and the chance of new life. The speaker of this poem begins by strongly advising these actions and, as the poem continues, urges a person to take different actions. In this poem, the speaker talks about embracing life by needing the experience of melancholy to appreciate the true joy and beauty of