Since the 18th century, human beings have referred to forms of poetry as romanticism. Today, people believe that a romantic story is primarily about two characters falling in love and living happily ever after. This belief is erroneous in romantic literature and there are much more general guidelines than a simple love story for two. Some examples of Romanticism are types of writing that have a strong sense of freedom, a love for nature, an elaborate imagination, or even extreme emotion toward a simplistic object or other character. When asked whether John Keats' poem "Ode to a Nightingale" qualifies as romance literature, many readers' first answer is no. The realization is that when people begin to examine the story more closely, they then begin to notice that his writing does indeed fall under the category of romanticism. (Metmuseum) In Keats' poem "Ode to a Nightingale" he writes about his love for nature, this is an example of how this poem falls under the category of romanticism. Keats believes that by being surrounded by nature he will...