tells us that melancholy must be faced head-on and accepted as a natural part of life Beauty and Melancholy In the second stanza Keats explains how we should respond when melancholy strikes He uses beautiful images from nature to show us how we can find beauty even in moments of sadness For example he mentions a morning rose that blooms in the morning and fades by the evening This rose is beautiful but temporary The flower s fleeting nature makes it more special and at the same time makes us feel sad because we know it won t last Keats writes She melancholy dwells with Beauty Beauty that must die By appreciating beauty we embrace both beauty and melancholy at once Joy and Melancholy Keats also shows how joy and melancholy are deeply connected He says that joy is always accompanied by the knowledge that it will end Keats explores this idea by imagining Joy is always saying goodbye And Joy whose hand is ever at his lips Bidding adieu It shows that joy happiness is never permanent Similarly beauty is always linked to sadness because beautiful things fade away with time For example flowers wilt rainbows disappear and even human beauty fades Keats argues that this impermanence is what makes beauty so powerful it reminds us to cherish these moments while they last Melancholy as a Goddess In the third stanza Keats personifies Melancholy as a goddess who lives in the temple of Delight This means that Melancholy lives within joy and the two cannot exist without each other Only those who fully experience joy and beauty can truly understand the depth of melancholy Melancholy is Not Separate from Beauty and Joy Ultimately Keats wants us to understand that melancholy is not separate from beauty and joy it is a part of them Without sadness we would not be able to fully appreciate happiness or beauty This is why Keats tells us to embrace our feelings of melancholy instead of avoiding them By doing so we can experience the full richness of life even in its bittersweet moments Keats notes how to embrace melancholy when your beautiful partner is angry with you Emprison her soft hand and let her rave And feed deep deep upon her peerless eyes To wrap up Keats shows us that life s fleeting beauty and joy are made more meaningful because of their connection to melancholy This idea teaches us to accept and cherish all of life s emotions We should even embrace painful moments because they help us truly understand the beauty of the world nbsp