The Eve of Saint Agnes certainly progresses and ends as a romance. Porphyro, a young volunteer, is determined to win the love of Madeline, who also seeks love through mystical means; they end up in the same bed, knowing that their love will be rejected by their families, and run away together. This motif echoes one of Shakespeare's best-known works, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. But is it that simple? Honestly, how do these two compare? There is something disturbing in the cold wind that blows while youth quenches the flames of its passions, in the deaths of the Beadman and Angela, or in the violent dreams of the Baron, despairing over the loss of his Madeleine . Is Keats simply paying homage to this classic idea of ​​young lovers, or is this his personal commentary on their union, evoking an inspiring writer essential to the English literary tradition? And is it really a happy ending? Comparing these two works, we will see that Keats believed that the ending of Romeo and Juliet was necessary and more hopeful than his own. To begin this argument, it is best to see how the two works align in relative similarities. the basic plot structures remain the same. Porphyro, just like young Romeo, braves a banquet thrown by his mortal enemies, "the whole bloodthirsty race" (Keats s.11) to find love, woos said love and runs away to be together and marry . Other little things are also comparable; Both authors confer on Porphyro the title of pilgrim, but certainly in different ways. This is the name that Romeo receives from Juliet, “pilgrim” and, just like Porphyro, sees his future beloveds possessing holy qualities (I.4.210-222). Porphyro, ...... middle of paper ...... Gray, Erik. “Indifference and epistolarity in The Eve of Saint Agnes.” Romanticism 5.2 (1999): 127. Academic research completed. EBSCO. Internet. May 2, 2014. Keats, John. “The Eve of Saint Agnes”. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Romantic Period. 8th edition. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt. New York: WW Norton & Co. 888-898.Print.MacCracken, Henry Noble. “The Source of Keats’s Eve of St. Agnes.” Modern Philology 5.2 (1907). 145-152. JSTOR. Internet. May 2, 2014.Shakespeare, William. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Ed. Richard Hosley. New Haven: YaleUniversity Press, 1954. Print.