In the “Eve of St. Agnes”, John Keats created a tale of young love not by forgetting what everyday existence is like, but by using the mean, sordid, and commonplace as a foundation upon which to build a high romance. The result is no mere fairy tale, but a poem that has a rounded fullness of mystery wherein Keats’ perplexes the reader with the questionable fusion of antithetical elements. Moreover, Keat’s commingles Madelines experience …showed first 75 words of 785 total…

…showed last 75 words of 785 total…the mind. However, one must not forget that Keats is writing a narrative poem, and that the fate of the lover is the climax of the story he tells; this point is therefore all-important. Because all that Keats says directly is, “And They are gone: ages long ago These lovers fled away into the storm,” the reader is left in doubt. This causes confusion in the mind of the reader and a mystery is contrived