John Keats When I Have Fears

While both Keats and Longfellow often reflect on their own unfulfilled dreams and impending deaths, the poems however contrast on their own dispositions towards death and the future. Here, Keats expresses a fear of not having enough time to accomplish all that he believes he is capable of doing, but as he recognizes the enormity of the world and his own limitations of life, he realizes that his own mortal goals are meaningless in the long run of things. On the other hand, Longfellow speaks of a regret towards his inaction for allowing time to slip away from him in his past and is at a crossroads for the ominous future that looms ahead of him. Through the use of light and dark imagery, and personification, Keats and Longfellow similarly yet also differently, reflect on their own ideas for death and the futures that lay ahead of them.

From the first few lines Keats alludes to the great romances of the previous ages as opposed to William Shakespeare's great tragedies. While it could be discerned that Keats is referring to his poem

Once more, the poet anticipates his own death when he composes this poem. But in each of these quatrains, the speaker fails to confront the full scope of his problem: winter, in fact, is a part of a cycle; winter follows spring, and spring returns after winter just as surely. Age, on the other hand, is not a cycle; youth will not come again for the speaker. In the third quatrain, the speaker resigns himself to this fact.]

A similarity between the two poems is that they both surround the fear of dying before accomplishing life dreams. In “When I have Fears”, Keats is afraid of his life ending before he has a chance to leave a mark on the world by becoming a famous poet. You can see this in lines 1 and 2 of

As people near the time of their deaths, they begin to reflect upon the history and events of their own lives. Both John Keats’ “When I have Fears” and Henry Longfellow’s “Mezzo Cammin” reflect upon the speakers’ fears and thoughts of death. However, the conclusions between these two poems end quite differently. Although both reflect upon Death’s grasp, Keats’ displays an appreciation and subtle satisfaction with the wonders of life, while Longfellow morbidly mourns his past inactions and fears what events the future may bring.

In the two poems, “When I Have Fears” by John Keats and “Mezzo Cammin” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, both of the poets deal with the death that they believe is quickly approaching them and think back to their regrets in life. Keats during the time when this poem had been written had just seen his brother die of tuberculosis and due to this he believed he too would soon die. Longfellow at the time writing his poem had been 35 and due to this was most likely experiencing a mid-life crisis. Similarities between the two poems include the poem’s theme and the thoughts of death that the two men are dealing with. The main

In the poem, When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be, by John Keats, he describes what he wants to do before he dies. John Keats died young from tuberculosis and was not very popular in society. He wrote a message on his own tombstone, which read “Here lies one whose name was writ in water”. It wouldn’t be until hundreds of years later that he would be recognized as one of the greats. After considering Keats’ poem, When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be, I have three things that I would like to accomplish before my time is up which are having a family, taking my dad on a hunt, and traveling all over the world.

“My Fear,” by Lawrence Raab is a haunting poem about fear itself and how no one can escape it. In this particular poem, fear becomes an omnipresent physical being that, “follows us,” and has something in its, “black sack of troubles” for everyone. While fear is often considered to be psychological since fear exists solely in our minds when we have nightmares, the poem concludes with the speaker's encounter with “Mr. Fear” before he slept. Thus, it can be inferred that the speaker has had a potentially traumatic experience with fear and proving that fear finds us all no matter what and it does not lie at our feet but towers above us menacingly.

if you look at his poem. After the 1st half of the 3rd stanza, all the

“When I Have Fears That I May Cease to be” Keats’ uses the iambic pentameter in a very different way. Although the structure is the same he changes his pace halfway through the lines, instead of starting the change of pace at the beginning of the line like Shakespeare does. This poem is all about Keats impending doom and his fears of not accomplish everything that he wishes too. Although love is mentioned in this poem it is more of a second thought, he is more focused on not being able to have passionate love then he about declaring his love to another, like in Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”. Gerard Hopkin’s poem

The attitude of the writer in “When I Have Fears” is regretful, desiring, and fearful,

Poems can have many meanings, after reading a poem it can sometimes leave you with mix emotions, or leave you a little confused. You have to peel back layers from a poem to find the true meaning of it. Like in the poem “When I Have Fear” I thought the poem was about the fear of getting older, but in reality it was about the fear of dying young and not being remembered, and not being able to achieve his goals. The poem “When I Have Fears”, by John Keats, was inspired from the fear of dying young before his life really began and him having the chance to find love and complete his career as a poet. The beginning of the poem capture the audience attention by saying “when I have fears that I may cease to be”, this shows the fear people in everyday life feel about dying prematurely in this world before achieving their goals .

The twenty-four old romantic poet John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” written in the spring of 1819 was one of his last of six odes. That he ever wrote for he died of tuberculosis a year later. Although, his time as a poet was short he was an essential part of The Romantic period (1789-1832). His groundbreaking poetry created a paradigm shift in the way poetry was composed and comprehended. Indeed, the Romantic period provided a shift from reason to belief in the senses and intuition. “Keats’s poem is able to address some of the most common assumptions and valorizations in the study of Romantic poetry, such as the opposition between “organic culture” and the alienation of modernity”. (O’Rourke, 53) The irony of Keats’s Urn is he likens

In “To Autumn”, the season autumn is depicted as death, or as the Grim Reaper. Autumn is, however, an unusual reaper figure, in that they are not merciless, but patient and calm. Interestingly enough, the point of view Keats offers about death, is non-violent, not corporeal, and only implicit in the poem, through metaphors. Almost all human components are removed from the poem, and death is symbolized by nature only. It is put into a context where it occurs in the course of nature, and pictured as a consequence of riches, abundance, and fulfilment.

Keats was very aware of his own mortality and his poetry reflected the intensity and the passion of a man who didn't have very long to live. His poetry remains some of the densest prose ever penned because, like his brief existence, he had to condense so much life into so little space. The thought of impending death would be enough to make anyone fall into hopeless despair but Keats's incredible talents and commitment to live in the moment perhaps allowed him to three lifetimes.