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To put it simply, Byron [George Gordon, Lord Byron] was a Negative Nancy, Keats [John Keats] was a positive Patty, and Wordsworth [William Wordsworth] was somewhere in between (In Between Isabella). Byronic melancholy discusses an inevitable doom. Throughout Byron's works, he consistently expresses this inevitable doom over everyone and everything. Nothing can escape it. It is not "Happily Ever After". In contrast, Keats possesses a "glass half-full" attitude about life. In his works, things go wrong but not to the detriment of everyone and everything. It is by no means inevitable either. he sees some doom and gloom but also recognizes the "silver-linings" and the "light at the end of the tunnel"s. Wordsworth is less melancholic than Byron, but more melancholic than Keats. Wordsworth was not a fan of change and can often be seen as a melancholic because he wrote much about the world's changing nature. While it's not "Happily Ever After" for Wordsworth, it's definitely not 'Everyone's doomed so, what's the point'.