For the first time in many, many years it has become more acceptable for men to be open with their feelings. There was a new world available to them in which they could explore their emotional connection to nature, death, and humanity as a whole. Blake and Keats were very focused on elements of their personal experiences and how those experiences influenced their lives. Keats often reflects on his own mortality. He was deeply concerned about his health and thanks to his medical training was able to predict when he would be close to death. He had been small and frail all his life and it is likely that the early deaths of his mother and brother from tuberculosis had an impact on the way he viewed and appreciated life