![]() His sister, Peona, takes him away and brings him to her resting place where he sleeps. Latmos, is in a trancelike state, and not participating in their discourse. ![]() However, Endymion, the "brain-sick shepherd-prince" of Mt. ![]() As the youths sing and dance, the elder men sit and talk about what life would be like in the shades of Elysium. The shepherds gather around an altar and pray to Pan, god of shepherds and flocks. It starts by painting a rustic scene of trees, rivers, shepherds, and sheep. The poem elaborates on the original story and renames Selene "Cynthia" (an alternative name for Artemis). Keats based the poem on the Greek myth of Endymion, the shepherd beloved of the moon goddess Selene. Endymion is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter (also known as heroic couplets). The poem begins with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever". John Keats dedicated this poem to the late poet Thomas Chatterton. Endymion is a poem by John Keats first published in 1818 by Taylor and Hessey of Fleet Street in London.
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