as a clear example of Keats's bower-centric poetry, yet it contains lines that make such a simplistic reading problematic,[clarification needed] such as: "First the realm I'll pass/Of Flora, and old Pan ...
Furthermore, Keats defends his early "bower-centric" subject matter, which hearkens back to the classical poetic tradition of Homer and Virgil.
Keats mounts an attack against Alexander Pope and many of his own fellow Romantic poets by downplaying their poetic departures into the imaginary: "with a puling infant's force/They sway'd about upon a rocking horse,/And thought it Pegasus.
Although written in simplistic rhyming couplets, the gradual turn towards inwardness serves as an important anticipation for Keats's later poetry.
when the morning blesses Thee for enlivening all the cheerful eyes That glance so brightly at the new sun-rise.