- John Keats was a British Romantic poet born in 1795 in London who died young at age 25 in Rome. - Some of his most famous poems include "Ode to a Nightingale", "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", and "Ode on a Grecian Urn". - The poem discusses the cycle of nature on earth between summer and winter. It describes the hot sun and cooling trees of summer, as well as birds singing until tired when grasshoppers take over. It then shifts to winter, when crickets near the stove take the lead in singing as evening falls. The overall message is that the poetry and beauty of the earth will never end, as the cycle