when i have fears that i may cease to be Flashcards
‘when i have fears that i may cease to be’
temporal deixis - death is inevitable
emotive response
if we have life, we must have death
‘before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain’
always going to be a feeling of unfulfillment
his intelligence will not be successfully developed
forgotten
‘high piled books, in charactery’
not going to be able to understand everyone’s behaviour
‘full ripened grain;’
nature has an eternal style
completed unlike keats
‘when i behold, upon the night’s starred face’
temporal deixis
ambition - endless possibilities
‘huge cloudy symbols’
some things are just unreachable
synaesthesia
physical limitations
still part of human experience
‘magic hand of chance’
no way of reaching dreams them by luck
capricious nature of fame through writing
‘feel, fair creature of an hour’
emotions
woman
shared moment
‘unreflecting love’
temporary
purity in that moment
never be able to go down that path
‘of the wide world i stand alone’
disappointment
spondee
elongated vowels
‘till love and fame of nothingness do sink’
everything ends
it won’t matter when we die
death is the answer to philosophical question
structure
enjambment - consistency that all human nature has and forever will be painted with this sense of unfulfillment
headlines
the complexity of human life
all human relationships are different
we should not live in regret
human existence cannot replicate nature’s cycle
human existence will always feel incomplete
we will never fully reach our ambitions
death should not be feared
humans can never live life to the fullest
