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Thomas Keats And Frances Jennings Essay

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Thomas Keats and Frances Jennings gave birth to John Keats on 31 October 1795 at his grandfather’s livery stable in London, United Kingdom.(“Keats, John (1795-1821).”) His father died in a riding accident when John was only 8 years old. As for John’s mother, she died when he was 14 years old due to tuberculosis.(“Keats, John (1795-1821).”) John had two younger brothers, George and Tom, and a younger sister named Fanny. John and his brother’s George and their younger brother went to John Clarke’s school at Enfield. Keats got guidance, encouragement and a strong friendship from his teacher, Charles Cowden Clarke.(“John Keats”.) Charles was the headmaster and a person of a strong literary interests and radical political sympathies.(“John …show more content…

His handling of the theme is, on the contrary, strikingly abstract, which compounds the effect of their inherent abstraction (“Kelvin Everest”). “When I Have Fears That I May Have Ceased To Be” is an example of beauty, love and death as the theme (“Kevin Everest”). Keats uses this sonnet as a frame upon which is soliloquize, a shape upon which to string his thoughts about death, love, art, imagination, frame and writing all as a theme says another critic Bruce King (“Bruce King”). Keats wrote this poem about having fears dying before people could see his poetry work says Bruce King. When I have fears is a Shakespearean sonnet consisting of three quatrains, each of alternating new rhymes concluding a couplet. Such as a rhyme scheme of (abab, cdcd, efef) and the couplet (gg)( “Bruce King”). The poem consists of a lot of vowel sound rhymes throughout the poem says critic Bruce King. Throughout the quatrains of the poem the quatrains are marked by the semicolons after lines 4 and 8, by the repetition of “When I” at the start of the first and second quatrain, and by the repeated phrase “And when I” at the start of the third quatrain.(“Bruce King”) Critic Bruce King says the vowel rhyme “romance"/"chance” in the second quatrain has similarities to “brain"/"grain” in the first quatrain while the nasal “n” sounds are alike in the poem. Therefore, those are vowel rhymes he

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