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W hen I Have F ears T hat I M ay C ease T o Be

W hen I Have F ears T hat I M ay C ease T o Be. BY: Bader Al Jemaz Ahmed Al Deyaib Omar Al Adwani. “Do Now”. Recall what do you know about the romantic era:. Biography. Born on October 31, 1795, in Moorgate, London , England.

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W hen I Have F ears T hat I M ay C ease T o Be

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  1. When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be BY: Bader Al Jemaz Ahmed Al Deyaib Omar Al Adwani

  2. “Do Now” Recall what do you know about the romantic era:

  3. Biography Born on October 31, 1795, in Moorgate, London, England. Died in the 23rd of February 1821 at aged 25, in Rome, Italy. Keats never grew any taller than a couple of inches above 5ft tall. This distressed Keats sometimes as it annoyed him that his younger brother George, who towered over him, would be mistaken for the older sibling.

  4. John Keats

  5. About his life In 1818, at the age of 21 he wrote the poem “When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be” which expresses his way of love, fame, and time. At the age 24 John Keats stopped writing because of illness. He felt confident that his poetry would survive him after his end, "I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.” On his headstone he wrote, "Here lies one whose name was writ in water."

  6. When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-pilèd books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain; When I behold, upon the night’s starred face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love—then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink

  7. Poem Explanation John Keats’ poem shows his fear and the way he lived. He is afraid from death because he thinks that he won’t achieve the fame that he most dreamt through his poetry. He is also afraid to die before he meets a particular woman that he desires and experience the true meaning of passionate love. At the end of the poem he is helpless and realizes that romance and fame are worthless and he is a lonely person.

  8. Vocab • Glean: collecting patiently or picking out laboriously. • Teeming: plentiful, overflowing, or produced in large quantities. • Charactery: printing or handwriting. • High romance: • High: of an elevated or exalted character or quality; • Romance: medieval narrative of chivalry, also an idealistic fiction which tends not to be realistic.

  9. Rhyme Scheme & Tone Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGG Tone: The tone of the poem is successful, romantic, and buoyant. It would be read optimistically.

  10. Social context John Keats was born at the beginning of the romantic era at the year of 1798 to 1832 in the United Kingdom. The years that he lived was related on the expression of feelings, nature, and imagination. Through the poem “When I have fears that I may cease to be” has often been read as a poem about a poet and his fear of mortality and death is part of nature to all mankind. John Keats feelings were reflected on the contentment in nature and imagination.

  11. Complicated Lines • Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain: • The speaker is confident that the poem would be successful. John Keats faces the fear that he might not complete the poem • Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance: • Keats sees nature as a natural emotion he contain

  12. Poetic Devices The 14-line poem is written in iambic pentameter and consists of three quatrains and a couplet. Keats describes fears of death through what the narrator wishes to accomplish through life. He fears death because he will miss the great things such as love, fame, and writing.

  13. Imagery • Line 1: Keats begins the poem with a deliberate contemplation of his death, an uneasy image to begin the poem with. • Line 9: The "fair creature" becomes an image of the natural world, but she's an especially weak one. Unlike the sky or the world, she'll grow old and pass away. • Line 13: The "wide world" becomes an image of nature in general , a world far too big to understand.

  14. Symbolism • Line 4: This simile compares language to wheat in a grain bin • Line 5: Personifying the night by turning its stars into a "face" allows the speaker to interact with it as he would a real person. • Lines 6-7:Personifying chance by giving it a hand doesn't make it any easier to picture.

  15. Quiz In a short paragraph explain why he is afraid of dying and that he is not afraid from completing his poem?

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