Fears Of Dying Throughout John Keats ' When I Have Fears

But, we should first and foremost put this sonnet back in its context. We can easily presume that it is autobiographic, thus that Keats reveals us his own worries. In 1818, he is aware that he has short time left to live due to the fatal illness

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

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.

“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.

In conclusion, the poem points the inevitable cycle of natural and emotional events and the power that love has to go beyond that cycle. This is why the speaker assures that the way he has loved is something that

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.

Conversely, Keats does not conclude with a positive image of love; the knight’s pain is shown when Keats metaphorically places him ‘on the cold hill’s side’ along with the many other ‘pale kings and princes

To emphasize the significance of love to a human being’s survival, the poem begins with the many aspects that love isn’t capable of. By stating the ways love is useless in providing as a necessity of life, the speaker is able to persuade the reader(s) that it serves no real purpose. Displaying the a b a parts of a Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme, love “is not meat or drink nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; nor yet a floating spar to men that sink,” (Millay 1-3) it holds no practical value. It can’t provide you with food and shelter you from nature or even help you to survive. In other words, these stanzas connected the image of love to an idea of uselessness in surviving.

He also calls the addressed “fair creature of the hour,” and recognizes the constraint of time on love, for an hour is fleeting. He also recognizes the fickleness of it – who is to say someone else will be his addressed the next hour? He continues to suggest that the addressed has some sort of deceptive and illusory “faery power” that creates an “unreflecting love.” Deception and illusion typically are detrimental for those who experience it. Keats does not reflect on losing the chance for love as something terribly unhappy, for he has a pre-existing negative perception of love. Love is also “unreflecting,” so love won’t be reciprocated. Keats then ends the segment about love half a line earlier in this quatrain than all other quatrains.

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.

As life progresses people come to the understanding that nothing in life is promised except death. It is inevitable, and it happens in many different ways. Every death is accompanied with an interesting story behind it. In the three works, “The Masque of the Red Death”, “Annabel Lee” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” all written by Poe, death is a big picture in all of his works and the fear of death is something witnessed a lot in his works. In, “The Masque of the Red Death”, Prince Prospero, who is a selfish leader, locks himself and other friends out of harm's way of the Red Death. He later throws a party and ironically the Red Death finds its way there. Annabel Lee on the other hand, is a wife, who was madly in love. Annabel was taken

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Love is a special emotion that most individuals strives for. Part of a human’s nature is to love and long for another individual. This feeling has existed since the beginning and will continue to exist until the end. The term “love,” however, is very broad. To understand more easily what the term means, the Ancient Greeks came up with three terms to symbolize the three main types of love. The three classical types of love are very important to understand, as they will continue to exist until the world ends. The selected poems read reflect three classical types of love.

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