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When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be By: John Keats
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Basis Synopsis He talks about his fear of dying young
He is scared that he will never fulfill himself as a writer He scared that he will lose his beloved
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Theme Theme is death, but he doesn't seem at peace with death, but he fears death.
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What does the speakers fear cause?
It causes him not to achieve love and fame in is short time on earth.
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To what are great books compared?
“Before high piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain;...” He is saying that before he dies, he has written a lot of books and he compares his writing to grains of wheat. They’re the natural product of a fruitful earth, which in this case would be his brain.
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Questions from packet Assonance Alliteration “Grain, brain”
“Chance, romance” “Hour, power” ... Alliteration “Of the wide world,” “feel,fair..”
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