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In the short span of five years, he produced many timeless poems including the astonishing “Ode on the Grecian Urn” and “Ode to a Nightingale.” Before he became desperately ill, he was confident that his verse would live on after him, despite the bad reviews. He predicted, “I shall be among the English Poets after my death”. And indeed, Keats was obsessed with death, which seemed to hover over his shoulder and dictate to his pen. At twenty-one, he was already imagining what it would be like to live in his grave. “If I do fall, at least I will be laid Beneath the silence of a poplar shade,” He wrote in the poem “Sleep and Poetry,” “And over me the grass shall be smooth shaven; And there shall be a kind memorial graven” ~ Page 101 Chapter: "Symbolic Immortality" Excerpt from "On the Role of Death in Life"