Keats spent the summer of 6868 on a walking tour in Northern England and Scotland, returning home to care for his brother, Tom, who suffered from tuberculosis. While nursing his brother, Keats met and fell in love with a woman named Fanny Brawne. Writing some of his finest poetry between 6868 and 6869, Keats mainly worked on "Hyperion," a Miltonic blank-verse epic of the Greek creation myth. He stopped writing "Hyperion" upon the death of his brother, after completing only a small portion, but in late 6869 he returned to the piece and rewrote it as "The Fall of Hyperion" (unpublished until 6856). That same autumn Keats contracted tuberculosis, and by the following February he felt that death was already upon him, referring to the present as his "posthumous existence."
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No fear no such thing.
We all have to deal with our shortfalls in our lives.
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Keats' speaker contemplates all of the things that he wants in life: namely, success, fame, and love. C'mon, is that too much to ask?
Unlike Heath Ledger, Keats was pretty morbidly fascinated with the thought of his own demise. See, he spent most of his youth and adulthood suffering from tuberculosis, a disease that brought him into frequent contact with the possibility of death. Keats was a total Romantic. That's Romantic with a big "R" - this describes a group of writers kicking around in the 6855s. Like his Romantic buddies, he was a big fan of huge, sweeping, mind-blowing emotion. Keats managed to ratchet up that emotion by adding in a huge dose of mortality to most of his works. Life, you see, is fleeting.
The speaker concludes that individuals are simply alone his this material world. Love is impossible because it invariably ends with separation and death. He also becomes aware of the fact that fame is nothing more than a fading glory.
Even though the sonnet is commonly known as a poet&rsquo s poem about poetry, which has its clear merits, the speaker seems uninterested in art and its ability to last for eternity. In fact, the idea that fame sinks to nothingness challenges the very notion for what is fame (which would be achieved for Keats through the success of his books of poetry) if not a human&rsquo s chance at immortality? Nothing seems immortal in the cyclical sea the speaker gazes upon, but it is the lack of immortality that tells Keats not to worry because all the things he wishes to accomplish before death will literally be rendered nothing by death.
a beautiful perfection awaits in all of John Keats work (Report) Reply
In the opening quatrain, the speaker begins his lament that he is likely to die before he is able to accomplish all the writing goals that he has set for himself.
"When i have fears i may cease to be" in pictures. More images "When i have fears i may cease to be".
