When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be, by John Keats.

It was not easy to get the purpose of the poem at the first time I read it. But, once I went into it and I tried to feel every single word, I came up with an idea that is represents a strong and hard part of his life.

As he was raised in a humble family, I think that through this poem, he wants to share his feelings of being alone and unnoticed by the rest of people because of his social conditions. That is why he mentiones the phrase, “And think that I may never live to trace”. With this, the author also expresses that he will not be remembered after his death.

Finaly, relating the poem to romanticism, I think it is present in the passion that John Keats uses to write, and how he gives life to objects through his writing. I like the way he uses the words and how everything become alive.

Kubla Khan

After reading the poem “Kubla Khan” I related the message to what men are doing now to nature. First, the poem mentions a saint river which flows through obscures caverns unknown by men. Then it refers to a woman which certainly represents the walls and towers interrupting and surrounding the river, that river that later returns and detroyes the city in order to keep flowing just as it was at the beginning.

From my point of view, the poet is just trying to express what he feels and how he sees all the changes that are caused by men’s work. That is why I chose the first quotation which says; “Poetry is an art…of representing, in words, external nature and human thoughts and affections, both relatively to human affections, by the production of as much immediate pleasure in parts, as is compatible with the largest sum of pleasure in the whole”. To me, this quotation deals with the idea of expressing the deepest feelings of human nature on a paper and no matter how you show them through a poem but the more pleasure you put into it the more art you are doing. The author got that pleasure from drugs, that is how he got motivated to write and that was the way to relate external nature to human thoughts.