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Alexis Krahling Ms. Gelso Brit Lit 3 March 14, 2014 How Does the Poem “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” Relate To Krahling)2) ) Alexis Krahling Ms. Gelso Brit Lit 3 March 14, 2014 How does the poem “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” relate to John Keats background and biography? The background of a person’s discuses a person’s past life and the experiences they went through. The biography of a person’s life is the story of a real person’s life written by someone other than that specific person. In “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” by John Keats, published in 1848, parts of Keats background and biography are seen. Keats’s poem was written during the literary time period of Romanticism. Romanticism was a time when writers emphasized feeling and when individual experiences were highly valued. Keats expresses his feelings and his individual experiences in life in “When I Have fears That I May Cease to Be.” In the poem, Keats expresses his fear of dying before he accomplishes his goals and before he sees a specific woman again. He talks about how he feels alone in the world and how love and fame have no value. Knowing about John Keats’s life helps one understand the poem “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” because it relates to John Keats’s background and biography by expressing his fears of death, his past experiences with death, and Keats’s ambitious attitude. John Keats was a well-known British author who wrote poems, like “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be”, during the Romantic Period. Keats suffered from many loses in his Krahling)3) ) family which affected his poems like “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be.” Keats father was a “livery-stable manager” (“Keats, John”) who did not make much money, therefore Keats received very little formal education. Keats’s early home life was “happy, the family close-knit, the environment full of the exuberance and clamor of a big-city stable and inn yard” (Kipperman). Keats’s father later died from falling off a horse. Eldest of five, Keats was fairly close to his siblings, sister Fanny and brother George and Tom. Later in his life, Keats loses one of his brothers as well as his mother to tuberculosis. Once his mother’s second marriage ended “the Keats children lived with their widowed grandmother” (“Keats, John”) who died later in Keats’s life. Living with his grandmother allowed him to attend school which was run by John Clarke whose son, Charles Cowden Clarke, “did much to encourage Keats’s literary aspirations” (“Keats, John”). Without school, Keats would have never had to courage to write poetry. Keats picked up different jobs like becoming a surgeon but “after 1817 he devoted himself entirely to poetry” (“Keats, John”). Due to his ambitious attitude and interest in poetry, John Keats devoted his life “to the perfection of a poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal, and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend” (“Keats, John”). Encouraged by Charles Cowden Clarke, Keats became a well-known English Romantic lyric poet who wrote many poems about his experiences and fears of death. Keats “published fifty-four poems” (Kipperman) and wrote many letters in his short life of 25 years. Keats’s ambitious attitude came from his “outgoing [and] high-spirited” (Kissane) personality which caused “each point in his development he took on the challenges of a wide range of poetic forms from the sonnet, to the Spenserian Romance, to the Miltonic epic, defining fusion of earnest energy, control of conflicting perspectives and forces, poetic self-consciousness, and, dry ironic wit” (Kipperman). While working as a Krahling)4) ) surgeon, “Keats grew restless and lonely” (Kipperman) which causes him to lose some of his determination to do things like write poetry. He turned towards books which he “devoured rather than read” (Kipperman). Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser was the book that “awakened his love of poetry” and caused him to become aware of his “powers of imagination” (Kipperman). This book sparked up Keats’s determination and his ambitious attitude. Throughout Keats’s lifetime, he went through a lot of suffering which caused many of his poems to be about death and suffering like “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be.” Keats suffered from deaths, heart aches, brutal criticisms and more. Keats later got tuberculosis, like his mother, and died shortly after. The Romantic Period lasted from about 1785-1837. John Keats lived from about 1795- 1821 (“Keats, John”) which was right around the Romanticism Period. Romanticism “emphasizes nature as a guiding, elevated force, recognizes the central significance of individual experiences, and… uses diction focused on rural and idyllic country life” (Imbarrato and Berkin). Romantic literature was centered on “nature as a source of poetic inspiration” (Quinn). Feeling and imagination was emphasized through literature and art as well. Keats uses feeling multiple times in his poems to show how he felt about death. The point of Romanticism was “the interaction of the poet’s creative imagination and the underlying spirit of nature” which produces “an intense, subjective experience, communicated to readers in fresh, spontaneous language” (Quinn). William Blake, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, John Keats, and Jane Austen are some of the authors who wrote during the Romantic Period. Intuition was valued much more over structure which was often abandoned in works of literature. The lower class or the common people were the topics of art and literature during this time period. The supernatural elements began to show up in works and were now allowed to be used. The Krahling)5) ) Romantic period was a literary time period when authors, like John Keats, could focus on individual experiences and expressing imagination and feeling through nature. Keats’ background and biography are related to “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” because the poem expresses Keats’ fears of death. Throughout the poem, Keats fears death because he believes he will die before he accomplishes all of his goals. Keats fears that he will die before his “Before high pil’d books, in charact’ry, / Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain” (3-4). “high pil’d books” (3) suggests Keats’s fear that he will die before he reads all of the books there are to read and that he will die before “he has expressed the many feelings in his brain by writing books” (King). Keats has goals that he wishes to accomplish and fears death will come before he is able to even try some of these things. The simile used in line four points out that the language in the books are like wheat in a grain Keats later mentions “Huge cloudy symbols of high romance” (6). The Romantic element of the use of nature indicates “Keats fear that he will die before he can ‘trace / Their shadows’” (King). “cloudy symbols” (6) show Keats fear of failing at expectations and therefore not accomplishing his goals. The idea of failing frightens him which causes his fear of death to be even greater. The fear of dying an early death causes Keats to have smaller fears like failing at expectations or not accomplishing a goal. Keats also fears he will die “before he has copied the hidden truths of art and before he has fully experienced love” (King). Keats mentions his fear “That I shall never look upon thee more” (10). Keats fears that he will die and never experience love with that one special person. Keats also says “Never have relish in the faery power / Of unreflecting love” (11-12). The word choice of these lines indicates what Keats fears he will not accomplish. The word “relish” means enjoy which means that Keats fears that he will never enjoy “an unmediated experience of love” (King). In the final line of the poem, Keats says “Till love and fame to nothingness do sink” Krahling)6) ) (14). Although this line has some ambiguity, it could indicate Keats’s overall fears about death. The word “fame” could indicate his fear that he will die before accomplishing his goals and therefore failing expectations and the word “love” could indicate Keats fear about never finding a woman to love. Keats fears that he will die and will lose his fame and love. Keats’ background and biography are related to “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” because the poem relates to Keats’s past experiences with death. Throughout Keats’s lifetime, he suffered from multiple deaths in his family. By the time Keats was around the age of 15, “he had lost a brother, his grandmother, and both his parents” (Carroll). As a form of grieving, Keats portrayed his feelings and individual experiences about death through his poetry. The speaker “stand alone, and think / Till love and fame to nothingness do sink” (13-14). The speaker in this poem is “isolated” and “unable to do anything” (Carroll). Keats has experienced death so many times that it is mostly a negative feeling for him. The repetition of “when I” throughout the poem indicates Keats personal fears of death. The Romantic element of discussing his individual experiences shows that Keats has experiences with death and his fears have come from these experiences. “Of the wide world I stand alone, and think” (13) was how Keats felt. Keats felt alone and feared death. After seeing many close friends and family members die, Keats fear of an early death continued to grow which caused his poems to be affected. “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” (1) indicates that death can come at any time of one’s life and end it.
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