Literary Analysis Of Keeats On Fame

Register to read the introduction… This gives the reader a sense of how fame is hard to come by, and it is hard to get, for fame is like a woman that everybody wants but does not want to be chased. Men may do anything to get their women but in the end it is still women that decide if they want to be with them. Keats On Fame is a Shakespearean sonnet. The first eight lines of the poem depict a very vivid description of fame as a woman, a woman who does not want to be chased and someone who will settle for a humble boy. Fame is described, as someone mysterious and that she will come to you if you do not come to her. She delights someone who does not seek her. This gives the reader an impression that fame is a good woman.
The description takes shift in the volta, where she is compared to the sister-in-law of Potiphar’s wife. Keats uses this allusion to make a reference to the lustful wife of Potiphar. In the sextet, fame is somehow described as a wild woman that men are crazy for. She is somewhat like a prostitute; she is desirable but detestable at the same time (Rogers 43). Men go crazy for her because she is lustful; she fulfills the desire of the flesh. She gives them everything they want, just how fame gives you everything, like power and