"Keats had experienced both of those things," Anne agreed with him. "When I first read the poem, I knew nothing of the poet, and thought it to be quite melancholy and lovely, and there are some who say that when you study poetry you should study nothing but the words themselves. But I find that impossible to do, when the state of mind of the poet and the state of the world around him have such a tremendous effect on his writing. Keats was frequently ill, and died quite young, and there were times in his life when he experienced such a passion for poetry that he found it difficult to feel any connection to anything else at all. Does knowing those things affect how you see what he has written in the first stanza? I imagine it's very much like writing a song; it means so much more when there's something of yourself in it."