When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be

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This Bucket Needs To Be Completed ASAP!

(“When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be” By John Keats)

Whatcha doing there old man? Checking off my bucket list. What’s a “bucket list”? A bucket list is a list of things someone wants to do before they die. Are you going to die soon sir? Don’t you have something better to do kid? SCRAM! Many people have a list of things they want to do before they pass into the afterlife, many are unable to complete or start their bucket list because they had a sudden death. The reason people make bucket lists is that they fear they won’t be able to experience them before they die, they fear death, John Keats feare, but feared that he won’t be able to do things he loves. In the poem “When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be” by John Keats he tells that he fears he won’t be able to do three things he loves reading/writing, see nature, and see the woman he loves. I fear things, but not death, before I die the three things I want to accomplish is to get married to Dakota, travel the world, and attend all my favorite band’s concerts.
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He is the man I love with every fiber of my being, there is nothing in this world that would ever change that. Everything about him is just what I’m looking for in a man and if I could get married to him I would be the happiest woman in the world. John Keats fear that he won’t be able to look upon the face of his loved one when he passes. That is one of the most horrible things in the world, not being able to look upon the man/woman that you love. “And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more (lines 9-10, page 885) The sadness that he holds in these lines makes me sad, the fact that if I were to marry Dakota I would also fear that I will never be able to look upon his fair handsome face

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