Fears

[victoriabuedo]

I found it quite interesting, how last week I wrote my own interpretation of ‘When I have fears that I may seas to be’, by John Keat and this week we actually managed to interpret the actual poem within our tutorials. ‘When I have fears that I may seas to be’ Depicts a pentameter; a fear of death.

‘Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain’,

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[jessicanayan]

Hey Victoria, I really appreciate your interpretation of Keats poem but I also believe that the final line in the poem 'Then on the shore of the wide world I stand alone, and think till love and fame to nothingness do sink', i can't help but to interpret that as, when he passed and has formed into an immortal soul after death, now roaming the land as a ghost, i think he was thinking that after he passes he'd still be thinking his creative thoughts but he cannot physically note his thoughts down this time BUT his thoughts are still streaming. And regarding to 'till love and fame to nothingness do sink', i interpret this as, the people who love him and are inspired by his poems and touched, and his ongoing fame even long after his death. So in a way he's life metaphorically has no end because his life is in his work.

:)