"The Eve of St. Agnes"

I am interested in the idea of reality vs dream in "The Eve of St. Agnes".  The tension between these two worlds in the poem parallels the tension Romantic poets had in their own lives.  Romantics often wrote of one moment in time, almost a dream like state, and then compared that to the harsh reality and inevitably of time.  For example, in Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey", he despairs as one moment passes; recognizing that it will never be quite the same as it was in that one instance.  Further in Wordworth's poem, we see the theme of the writer leaving reality to go to a dream-like world for him.  These same themes are found in Keat's poem.  Madeline escapes to another world through her slumber.  But when she awakes, she has trouble distinguishing her dream and her reality.  Though Porphyro never falls asleep as Madeline does.  The moment of secretly watching Madeline in her chamber is another world to him.  In this instance, he is able to escape his reality of being her family's enemy and not being her lover.  Keats writes that Prophyro is: "Stol'n to this paradise, and so entranced".  This dream like state is disturbed when the reality of the situation is discovered by Madeline, thus forcing Prophyro to face reality as well.  Madeline calls herself "A dove forlornadn lost with sick unpruned wing".  It is then that he offers her a home in the "Southern Moors" and they escape into the night.  However the poem ends with the death of Angela and the Beadsman.  So although the two lovers escape, two others die in the end of the poem.   The tone and occurrences of the middle of the poem compared to the tone of the end reminds us of the tension between dreams and reality.