( A discussion of three things to accomplish before passing including from When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats) A morbid, yet necessary thought. What is one to accomplish before their natural life ends. Everyone has intentions, though, intentions evidently don’t always turn into reality if one does not have a plan. In When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be, by John Keats, in this sonnet, the speaker, John Keats, despairs over the lost opportunities for creativity and love that his life’s brevity may yield. John Keats was born in 1795 and passed away in 1821. Unlike his contemporaries Byron and Shelley, John Keats was not an aristocrat. John Keats was born to working-class Londoners. When Keats …show more content…
Expressed in the following, “Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,” (Keats 885 line 6). The prior quote discloses that Keats fears that he will never truly be able to experience at length the unconditional love of a woman, whom he loves. Most can relate to Keats, as I do, that we all want to experience at length true love. To find our other -half to say the least, a “soul mate”. Whom we can cherish and love till death do us part. With come a soul mate, is marriage. Someday after meeting a good man and knowing him for years, I intend after marriage to raise a family with this man. I would prefer to have three or four children with the man I …show more content…
Indicated in the following, “Of the wide world I stand alone, and think” (Keats 885 line 13). The prior quote hints that Keats will miss the world he lives in, nature, also the various places he understood that he wouldn’t have the time to visit. The majority of humanity, as do I, intend to visit various places in the world before passing away. I personally would like to travel to Italy and indulge in the culture, for the full experience. Also, I would like to travel and spend some time in Greece, Egypt, and