Enn101D

(1) INTRODUCTION

In this assignment I plan on answering seven question with one essay type question on the poem “when I have fears that I may cease to be” by John Keats (1795-1821) for the purpose of learning to understand and better analyse poetry and literature with hope of pass ENN101D to the best of my ability.

Question 1

Octave: a b a b c d c d

Sestet: e f e f g g

The difference between the two sections is that in the first eight lines Keats talks about dying young being his biggest fear because he will never get acclaim for his work and he still has many thoughts to writes but in the last six lines his fears is of losing his love which is poetry and knowledge which he will never be able to do anymore but he resolves his fears in the last two line where he accepts his fate.

Question 2

The kind of affliction he suffers from is anguish. He anguishes over the thought that a young death will eclipse his life before he realizes his full poetic gifts and achieves them hence “Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain” and “Before high piled books, in charactry.” He also feels that he will never get the “fame” and “love” that he desperately seeks.

Question 3

He uses imagery of a harvest to make the reader imagine his imagination as being a fertile harvest and that he still has much to express. He also uses alliteration to reinforce that fertility with words such as “glean’d”,”rich graners” and “full rippen’d grain”.

Question 4

It is implied here that non-living things have been given qualities and features of human beings such as when he gives the night a face in “the night’s starr’d face” and he gives the shadows hands in “Their shadows, with the magic hands of chance” both are examples of personification.

Question 5

I think that he is referring to himself in the form of his imagination and his poetry as an indication that he will never have...