When I have fears that I may cease to be Answers

Understand the poem: 1. (a) fears (b) garners (c) behold (d) huge (e) trace (f) fair (g) fairy (h) thee (i) relish (j) shore 2. Fear of death He distances his feelings from ordinary life (the shore is the point of contact between land and sea, as it is the threshold between his two ‘worlds’). He accepts the unimportance of his desire for fame and love and ceases to fear and yearn for them. Explore poetic devices: 1. (a) Shakespearean / Elizabethan Sonnet. (b) abab cdcd efef gg   2. Keats is comparing his imagination to a grain of wheat that is fertile and ready to be harvested and he is the harvester (writer of poetry). 3. “the night’s starred face” 4. He fears that he will never be able to experience the closeness of romantic love, apart from this moment, when he is able to relate it to the beauty of nature. 5. “wide world”. 6. It removes the morbid tone and gives a tone of opportunity, that there is so much more that the “wide world” has to offer, than what the poet fears and is focussing on – a form of redemption from his fears. 7. (a) “nothingness to sink” – (b)