Keats

A Romantic Poet

Where I Have Fears That I

May Cease To Be

Analysis

Keats fears in dying young because he fears that he will not fulfill himself as a writer and that he will lose his beloved ones. Keats resolves his fears by asserting the unimportance of love and fame in the the concluding two and a half lines of this sonnet.

Romantic Elements Found in the Representative Painting

La Belle Dame sans Merci

Detailed Analysis

La Belle Dame sans Merci

Romantic Elements

In the poem, a knight comes across a beautiful woman, who is a fairy, at a lake. The knight showers her with gifts and the woman provides him with food. She then lures him back to her cave and puts him to sleep. The knight has a dream of all the other men she has lured into her cave, and sees that they are all dead. This means that the woman is eating the their souls. Then the knight wakes up alone on the side of a hill.

• Emotions: The emotion of fear is seen through the child's red cheeks as the child is touching the spinning wheel.
• Thoughts: The idea of dying young could come when you least expect it.

The Romantic Painting

• Imagination: The knight was dreaming of the dead men the fairy had captured, which was a spiritual truth of what the woman's true intentions were.
• Emotions: The knight felt love with the fairy when she gave him food and when he comforted her when she was upset by kissing her.

An Explanation of the Representative Painting of the Author John Keats

The painting shows a young child touching a spinning wheel. The painting represents the author because he was afraid of dying young and losing his beloved ones. He passed away at the age of 25.

Works Cited

Works Cited Cont.

• “Marianne (Preindlsberger) Stokes.” Marianne (Preindlsberger) Stokes | Artnet, www.artnet.com/artists/marianne-preindlsberger-stokes/.
• www.bartleby.com/essay/How-Does-John-Keatss-Poetry-Reflect-the-F3JPTD4KTJ.

• “10 Most Famous Poems By John Keats .” The Dawn of Knowledge , learnodo-newtonic.com/john-keats-famous-poems.
• “John William Waterhouse A Study For La Belle Dame Sans Merci Painting - A Study For La Belle Dame Sans Merci Print for Sale.” Paintingandframe.com, paintingandframe.com/prints/john_william_waterhouse_a_study_for_la_belle_dame_sans_merci-11264.html.
• “John Keats.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 21 Mar. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats.
• “John Keats – When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be.” Genius, genius.com/John-keats-when-i-have-fears-that-i-may-cease-to-be-annotated.

When I have Fears That I May

Cease to be

Nature

Nature is used when he mentions " the night's starr'd face" and "huge cloudy symbols of high romance" describing the power of nature to inspire thoughts.

Romantic Elements

Thoughts

Emotion

Keats uses emotion in where I have fears that may cease to be by expresses how he fears that he may die young and loses his beloved ones

He is thinking that he will not achieve or accomplish anything from his writings because he is feels he will die young.

John Keats

La Belle Dame sans Merci

Keats expresses his fear of dying young

Major Works Cont.

A woman captures men in her cave and takes their soul.

• The Eve of St. Agnes- "Saint Agnes is the patron saint of young girls and Saint Agnes’ Eve falls on the 20th of January. Keats’ poem is based on the superstition that a girl could see her future husband in a dream if she performed certain rites on the eve of St. Agnes."
• When I Have Fears- "This Elizabethan sonnet has now become one of Keats’ most famous compositions. It was written in 1818 and sent in a letter to John Hamilton Reynolds. Through this sonnet Keats expresses his fear that he wouldn’t be able to realize his potential, and achieve love and fame, during his short stay on earth."

Major Works

Romantic Elements In Life

• Ode to Psyche-"According to a Greek myth, Cupid falls in love with Psyche and asks Zeus to transform her into a Goddess. In Ode to Psyche Keats claims that Psyche is neglected in comparison to other deities as she became a Goddess later than them and the poem also serves as a song in praise of the goddess."
• To Autumn - "Keats wrote ‘To Autumn’ after a walk near Winchester one autumnal evening. The poem marks the end of his poetic career as his efforts were not giving him enough financial returns."
• Ode to a Nightingale- "A nightingale built its nest near Keats’ home in the spring of 1819 and inspired by its song, Keats wrote this famous ode in a single day. In the poem Keats describes a nightingale that experiences a type of death but does not actually die."

Did Adhere:

John Keats did adhere to the Romantic Elements because almost all his poetry reflected on nature, emotions, and thoughts.

" John Keats was born at the beginning of Romanticism making him a significant figure in the expression of these values."

Didn't Adhere:

John Keats didn't adhere to the Romantic Elements because at one point he wanted to be a doctor after his brother had died. His medical career never took off, leading him to poetry.

Biography Cont.

Biography

6. When Keats became a published poet, he considered his earlier works to be awful so much so that he collected every piece of paper containing them and burned them

7. Unfortunately, he became a great poet in which he only had five years of his poetic career in which to write some of the poems the world has ever seen.

8. Keats was engaged to the love of his life, Fanny Brawne however they were never married. This was because Keats wanted to strongly build his role as a poet and earn money before him and Fanny were married.

9. Keats died from tuberculosis over his short life of 25 years; however, Keats published fifty-four poems in three novels as well as a few magazines using a wide range of poetic forms including odes and sonnets.

1. Keats father died in an accident when John was eight years old and his mother died when he was fourteen

2. However, John was appointed a guardian and kept at school for a further year, after which he was apprenticed to an Apothecary surgeon for five years

3. When John found out that his brother Tom had tuberculosis, he went to him in order to nurse him putting his medical skills to use.

4. Tom died in December 1817 and unknown to John he had caught the disease from his brother.

5. But Keats' career in medicine never truly took off.