What Does John Keats When I Have Fears?

When I have Fears is a poem written by John Keats. In this poem Keats expresses his feeling of fear about the possibility of die young and the consequences that this fact would suppose, and how he realizes about the real situation. The title indicates that Keats did not consider himself inmortal, he knew that even though he acomplish his goal of write all his thoughts, one of the fears he feels. The poem is a sonnet structured following the Shakespearean model with three quatrains and a couplet. Each of the parts of the poem expresses a particular feeling about what would suppose die young. The structure, the vocabulary he uses and the kind of expressions that he uses to describe some dark thoughts are very similar to the sonnets that Shakespeare
The “teeming brain” that Keats expresses make reference to his brain full of ideas or thoughts that he wants to leave in this world written in books. He uses a metaphor to compare all these ideas on his brain with the “grain”. He uses this image because he wants to create in the mind of the reader the perception of a brain full of elements that he wants to tell to the whole world as a camp of grain is full of product ready to use. As the grain, he has been cultivating and collecting ideas in his mind during his life, and it is really important to him dying when he had expresses all of them. He emphasizes on how fertile is his imagination and the great amount of things he needs to tell. The imagery he uses with the cultivation is reinforced with the alliteration of the words “glean’d”, “garners”, “ripen’d” and “grain” and the repetition of r sounds during the quatrain. Also the adjectives“high-piled” and “rich” incentivise the image of abundance. The metaphor around the harvest contains one of the characteristics of Keats’s poetry, the use of paradox. In this case Keats is at the same time the fild of grain, because his imagination is like a camp of grain ready to be harvested, and the harvester, because as a poet, he is the one who has to harvest what his imagination produces. He compares the “pen” with a sickle and the “books” with a farm on which you can accumulate it. The fact of die young provoke fear in the poet because he could not harvest all the ideas he