When I have fears that I may cease to be
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- Created on: 11-05-18 13:18
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- When I Have Fears that I May Cease to be
- structure
- Iambic Pentameter
- 14 lines - Sonnet
- Shakespeare sonnet
- 3 quatrains followed by a couplet
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- 3 quatrains followed by a couplet
- Alliteration
- "Glean'd", "garners" and "grain"
- imagery of a possible harvest
- the possible fertility of Keats' imagination
- "Glean'd", "garners" and "grain"
- repetition
- "When"
- a reference to the passing of time.
- Theme of time
- Keats possibly feels like he is running out of time to achieve his desires
- "When"
- plural noun
- context - Keats' fear that his work and memories will fade.
- "Shadows"
- Theme of nothingness - fading into invisibility, the fear
- "Shadows"
- context - Keats' fear that his work and memories will fade.
- Personification
- "night's starred face"
- Awe
- A possible reference to the fame he desires - possibly looking at the beauty of nature
- Theme of nature - conventional for Keats
- "night's starred face"
- Extended metaphor
- second quatrain
- suggesting that love is something which is written in the stars/ sky.
- Negative Capability
- Love becomes something which is quite daunting/ terrifying for a mortal to be able to understand
- second quatrain
- metaphor - lines 11-12
- 'relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love'
- negative capability
- linking love to the extreme of supernatural power
- love is something about emotion rather than thoughts
- He could be talking about someone in particular - Fanny - she might not be returning the love
- 'relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love'
- structure
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