John Keats, born in London in 1795, wrote the sonnet To Sleep when he was only twenty years old. In an iambic pentameter, the narrator talks directly to Sleep, asking "him" to provide escape from reality. With rimes in A-B-A-B structure, the author here makes a very melodic and harmonious poem. The author uses several figures of speech to address sleep in a very specific way. More over, it is possible that there was a relation …showed first 75 words of 448 total…

…showed last 75 words of 448 total…link the author makes between the necessities being mentally stable and death could be related to his personal life. Indeed, we could interpretate it as a reflection of the author's state of mind when he wrote the poem in 1815. It is important to note that John Keats had a very difficult life: born in 1795, his father died when he was only five and hi mother died nine years later after leaving him with his grandmother.