Commerce with the world

In the same latter 23 Oct 1818, John Keats shared with his brother what he felt when he commerced with the world.

" Think of my Pleasure in Solitude in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child - there they do not know me, not even my most intimate acquaintance - I give in to their feelings as though I were refraining from irritating a little child. "

As the Chameleon poet, he has no self, no identity. As the man, John Keats, he has his identity and his self, but he still chose to hide it. He is not egocentric and he thinks paradoxically too and he conceived all ideas are end in speculation. More, he wanted harmony among friends. So he chose to give in to their feeling and not to make himself irritated when disagreeing with them. And he understood what his friends think about him.

"Some think me middling, others silly, others foolish - every one thinks he see my weak side against my will, when in truth it is with my will - I am content to be thought all this because I have in my own breast so great a resource.   This is one great reason why they like me so; because they can all show to advantage in a room and eclipse to be a good Poet.  I hope I am not here playing tricks - to make the angles weep - : I think not: for I have not the least contempt for my spieces,"

People all want to hide their weakness and want other to think them great. But John Keats is extraordinary that he hid his greatness and shown his weakness. And he understood human nature and accepted human weakness. The most common human weakness is self-decieve and thinks oneself is higher than the other. But John Keats seized the Truth. As a great man, he looks up to live up to the Greatness, the Beauty, the Truth. That is what he strifes for:

" Though it may sound paradoxical, my greatest elevations of soul leave me every time more humbled"

By perserving this letter which he wrote to his brother, we can share his inner feeling and thought and understand the man, his characters and how he related to his friends. This shows the great man.

That is why the more we read John Keats, the more we know him and the more we love him!!