John Keats When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be

The poem, “When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be”, by John Keats, uses metaphor, romantic imagery, and figurative language to reflect the speaker’s fear of dying without accomplishing what he aspires for in life which is success and fame in his writing and the love of one who will never love him back. In his writings, I think he is also saying to live you life to the fullest. To try to experience every little thing in life and to take advantage of it because we only live once. John Keats died at a young age from tuberculosis. The speaker, aware of his approaching death, expresses his fear that he will deprived of the three things he most greatly values: to write poetry of his many ideas, to experience the wondrous mystery of nature and gain
He wants to “relish in [her] fairy power” but he knows that she will never love him because her love is “unreflecting”. The speaker now mentions his encounter with a beautiful stranger. ‘Creature’ suggests that the women was almost inhuman and a product of nature, and hence mysterious. ‘Hour’ may suggest that beauty is temporary or it may refer to the speaker only seeing the women briefly. The speaker fears that he may never see her again. ‘Thee’ is old-fashioned which may suggest that the women is unordinary. The speaker also fears that he may never experience passionate love. ‘Fairy’ suggests the magical and unexplainable quality of love, it is also an old-fashioned word, suggesting that love is timeless. ‘Unreflecting’ suggests that the speaker’s love is either not returned by the women or is extremely shallow, being based purely on her physical appearance. ‘-’ suggests that his fantasies and hopes for the future are now cut off by his approaching death. It may also mean that he has accepted these things are now unachievable and that he now looks to his death instead of the things that could have been. The shore is often representative of a boundary or cross