time he was very ill and that he might die of an early death. John Keats is very frustrated that he
may never achieve his life’s work and to never experience love. He longs for love and fame, but
in the end of the poem he realizes how small his desires are and basically just gives up and looks
out into the ocean. John Keats’s tone in this whole poem is very doubtful. He is always doubtful
in finding love and fame. Brian Richards demonstrated a lot of good analysis line by line
throughout this poem. I would like to quote on what he said near the end of his article, “ The fear is therefore not just about death, but about failing during the limited time alive. In the poem,
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I am always afraid of failure and that I will never get to achieve the things that I want to do in my
life. And I remember that I did lose sight of love back when I was a senior in high school. And it
was the start of the second semester and that’s where I started dating my first girlfriend ever in
years. Then two months passed by, she later dumped me and fell into the arms of another guy. I’ll
never forget that feeling of being heartbroken, it was a tough year to get over it. And this is
where fear came into my life because it got me scared into thinking that will I ever find the right
girl? But eventually I realized that I needed to suck it up because there’s going to be plenty of
girls in the world that would love to meet a guy like me. And this gave me hope because I will
never look to the past anymore. To me, if your stuck in the past, you can never move forward.
All you have to do really is to live and move on. Don’t lose sight of what love truly is. As