Combined Experience of Suffering, Death and Love all at Once

The similarities between the poems lie in their abilities to utilize imagery as a means to enhance the concept of the fleeting nature that life ultimately has and to also help further elaborate the speaker’s opinion towards their own situation. In Keats’ poem, dark and imaginative images are used to help match with the speaker’s belief that both love and death arise from fate itself. Here, Keats describes the beauty and mystery of love with images of “shadows” and “huge cloudy symbols of a high romance” to illustrate his belief that love comes from fate, and that he is sad to miss out on such an opportunity when it comes time for his own death.

Keats, like all the other poets of this time found inspiration in nature except he dug deepen and found not only nature’s beauty as inspiration but its sounds as well. While reading Keats poems, I found that a lot of the things he was describing symbolized music. For instance in “ode to a Nightingale” Keats states: “Thou was not born for death, immortal Bird” (61). The bird can be seen a representation of life. Birds create the music of nature when they chirp and fly around. Keats takes this and compares it to life and death. I kind of see this as an idea that when you find a passion and focus on it, it can take you away from your problems. I can relate to this because I am a musician. When I am sad or frustrated we turn to the things we love

Keats draws the reader into his fantasy settings and dreamlike state of desire. Keats was obsessed with blurring the boundaries of dreams versus reality and the consequences of those boundaries. This is seen more in this poem than any of his other works. It is not known why he had this obsession, but maybe the dream world allowed him to forget everyone he lost due to illness, or maybe prevented him from thinking about his own illness and future demise. While writing this poem, Keats knew he was ill, because of his previous medical experience, and because he lost his mother and brother to tuberculosis, so he knew the symptoms.

I picked this poem because it was it was the most moving one I read. Keats was diagnosed with tuberculosis at a young age. His family members died from the same lung condition, so he knew his fate. A few nights before Keats died at 26, he wrote When I Have Fears. This poems talks about his worry of not living a fulfilled life because he we going to die so young. “Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,” (Line 2 Cease.) Keats was sad that he was not going to finish all the writing he wished to do in his lifetime. Not only that, Keats was newly engaged to the love of his life. Quickly after the engagement, Keats discovered he was sick. This poem captures his sorrow of not living a long and happy life with his fiance. This poem became my favorite, because of all of the meaning it stood for in Keats life and how incredibly moving it

During the romanticism era, Line 1-8 talks about how Keats is afraid that he won’t be able to become a writer. The poem was written during Romanticism where a lung disease, tuberculosis was widespread over Europe. Even Keats mother died from this disease when Keats was a child. Because he grew up alone, he didn’t have anyone to tell about his feelings therefore he started writing poems to express his feelings. He was worried that he may die at a young age with tuberculosis before he could write down all the ideas in his head. Line 9-12 is about Keats fear that he will lose his beloved one. It is normal to lose your beloved ones during your life. However, Keats lost both of his parents when he was still young therefore he didn’t receive the love that he needed when he was young. Because of this, he was very desperate for a love which is another reason why he wrote this poem to show his passion for love. Background of the poet and the era are a significant context which contribute to my

Long fellow states that ‘’ Half of his life is gone’’ and Keats then states that ‘’may cease to be’’. They then proceed to express their fears of not being able to accomplish the goals that they had. Long fellows acknowledges his down falls from his past, stating’ ‘The years slip from me and have not fulfilled the aspirations of my youth, to build some tower of song with lofty parapet’’ (lines 2-3). Keats fears are also very similar as he uses the word “Before’’ multiple times, showing the reader his fears of dying before achieving the life goals that he has.

“When I Have Fears” by John Keats has a miserable tone as the speaker expresses his thoughts about his death. From the first two lines, the speaker introduces his fear of his ending. He says, “When I have fears that I may cease to be / Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain” (Keats 1-2). It may be assumed that the speaker is the poet from these lines, since the word “pen” is associated with writing and expression. Keats describes other activities and desires that he will not be able to do or have because of his death that he believes he will encounter soon. He speaks about his yearnings and love in a way that seems as if he is already dying, or being deprived of his wants. This constructs the miserable tone. For example, “That I shall never look upon thee more, /

intellectual and imaginative climate,” perhaps a “spirit of an age”,” (Greenblatt, 8th ed. 6). As this quote displays, the Romantic period of literature held a closely associated atmosphere with the time. Four ideas, impulse of feeling, glorification of the ordinary, the supernatural, and individualism or alienation all serve as readily available examples of themes which display the atmosphere discussed by this quote. Out of all of these themes, glorification of the ordinary serves as the main focus of Keats’s poem “Why Did I Laugh Tonight? No Voice Will Tell”.

Life has many ups and downs; all of which form obstacles that shape us into what we’re destined to be. For instance, the prestigious an eminent English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning firsthand experienced this. For example she faced illness, wrong and right in both political and religious views, most of all infatuation for another. As a result, of the occurrences faced she had real context towards her literary work.

John Keats was a famous romantic poet whose work was characterized mainly by his use of diction, tone, and other literary devices to create sensual imagery in his works of poetry. Throughout the Elizabethan sonnet, When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be, one can see that Keats reflected his thoughts on life and death personal real life circumstances; ones he was facing during the time he wrote the poem. By using a combination of various literary techniques, he leaves the reader with a powerful impression of his own emotions. The main emotion he expresses throughout his sonnet is his fear of death and of not having enough time to live his life. Through the poem, Keats hopes to

John Keats, author of many poems from the British Romantic Period, was best known for his five “great odes,” the most famous of which was “Ode to a Nightingale” (“Ode – Summary”). Literary critic Douglas Bush once said that if John Keats had not died at the young age of twenty-five, he would be more well-known than William Shakespeare and John Milton (“John Keats” 559). John Keats was a young poet whose poems mostly revolved around the mortal and immortal aspects of life. Keats had a lot of influences in his life that led him to write “Ode to a Nightingale.”

Thus while the prospect of immortality appeals to Keats, he postulates that an endless life would only be worth the effort should he, “hear her tender-taken breath” (Keats 13). Beyond the romantic idealization Keats provides which imagines himself as a celestial body, “Bright Star” reveals the poet shares the philosophical notion that life is meaningless unless in the presence of or in the act of something one loves. Should his lover perish, or perhaps should Keats writing fail, the poet suggests that his life would therefore become null and he will seek the void. Conscious of such writings, and painfully aware of Keats ultimate fate, Oscar Wilde enters further dialogue with his predecessor in his homage to Keats.

“English Romantic lyric poet John Keats was dedicated to the perfection of poetry marked by vivid imagery that expressed a philosophy through classical legend” (Jones). John Keats’ poems were written with specific messages that could be obtained from what his main topic was. Something that Keats grew passionate about was the idea that he could travel through reading books rather than going from place to place. Keats wanted to travel to learn, but as he lived his life he slowly realized that he did not have a lot of time left in order to experience his life. Keats wanted to live his life to the fullest while he had the chance, and although he only lived to the age of 25 he did exactly that. In each of the poems he constructed, a specific message can be learned from each.

John Keats was known as the perfectionist of English Poetry. He was born in London on October 31, 1795. John Keats dedicated his short life to the flawlessness of verse checked by clear symbolism, incredible erotic offer and an endeavor to express a rationality through established legend.in 1818 he went on a mobile visit in the Lake District. He had a very painful childhood.His introduction and overexertion on that trek brought on the first side effects of the tuberculosis, which finished his life.Keats' involved mother nature straight into their poetry. This individual does not commonly talk about mother nature, however he makes use of it as a product to generate their poetry romantic and gentle.John Keats is a writer of 'energy

Nevertheless, one interesting fact is that, when he wrote “When I have fears that I may cease to be”, Keats had already been diagnosed with tuberculosis and was probably really feeling afraid of a possible premature death (a