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When I have fears -John Keats- 1796-1821 25 years old

When I have fears -John Keats- 1796-1821 25 years old. When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain , Before high-piled books, in charactery , Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain ; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face ,

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When I have fears -John Keats- 1796-1821 25 years old

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  1. When I have fears -John Keats- 1796-1821 25 years old

  2. When I have fears that I may cease to be • Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, • Before high-piled books, in charactery, • Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; • When I behold, upon the night's starr'd 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.

  3. 1 When I have fears that I may cease to be When I have fears that I may die Cease: ___________ Cease to be: stop ___________

  4. 2. Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, I don’t want to die ___________ my pen has harvested all the ideas from my filled up brain. Glean’d: ___________ the last bit of grain after a harvest. Sustained metaphor: The ___________ in the ___________ brain are like grown wheat that needs to be ___________

  5. 3 Before high-piled books, in charactery, 4 Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; I don’t want to die ___________ I have filled up a pile of books ___________ writing. These books will hold my ideas ___________ grain silos store the fully ___________ grain.

  6. Charactery: the ___________ act of ___________ Garners: silo, ___________, granary

  7. 5 When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, 6 Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, When I see on the ___________ face of the night symbols of ___________. Keats is a romantic poet. This ___________ he writes about the beauty of nature. The ___________ sky with the stars and moon is ___________ and romantic. The word cloudy ___________ there are some ___________ in the sky. Personification is used ___________ the night sky has a face.

  8. 7 And think that I may never live to trace 8 Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; I think that I may not ___________ long enough to draw the ___________ of nature. I may not live long enough to write the ___________ of nature. Magic hand of chance: the ___________ that ___________ poetry

  9. 9 And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, 10 That I shall never look upon thee more, 11 Never have relish in the faery power 12 Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore And when I feel, ___________ woman, that I will never look at you again, or enjoy your physical beauty of ___________ love. The poet only ___________ to enjoy the beauty of the ___________ he does not want to be loved by her. Relish: enjoy Fair creature of an hour: only see ___________ for an hour

  10. --then on the shore 13 Of the wide world I stand alone, and think 14 Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. Then I stand ___________(shore) and think that when I am dead (enter the sea) ___________ will ___________ nothing. Love and ___________ will mean nothing.

  11. When I have Fears by John Keats Keats died in 1821 but when he ___________ this sonnet in 1818 he was not aware that he would have such a ___________ life. It is tragically ___________ that he had these fears. The line of thought develops within each of the ___________ or groups of four lines and the conclusion starts at the end of line 12. ___________ at the first words of each of the quatrains and you will see how he builds his ___________ "When I have fears" When I behold" and "When I feel" and at the end of line 12 he makes his ___________ statement "Then I ___________ alone and think".

  12. His chief anxiety is that he ___________ die before he has been able to write down all the ideas he has. He compares the ___________ of his thoughts and ideas into creative writing so that the gathering and storing of grain in garners or ___________ barns. He feels that his brain is teeming with ideas. There is so ___________ for him to harvest and transfer to writing or charactery that he will ___________ in the form of books which will be piled high. In the second ___________ starting with line 5 he expresses the concern that he will not live long enough to enjoy the natural ___________ about which he feels very strongly. He draws great pleasure from such things as the ___________ of the night sky, the clouds and the shadows which he finds romantic and mysterious and ___________ inspire him as a writer.

  13. In the third ___________ from line 11 he shows his concern that he might not live long enough to enjoy the beauty of a young ___________ and love even if it is not returned. ___________ his final statement ___________ that he is able to see beyond fame and love as he ___________ about the world and the fact that it is the fate of all men to ___________ and he is happy to accept that fate. The shore of the ___________ world on which he says he is standing is a ___________ for life with death ___________ the sea, the great unknown

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