Essay on Keat's "When I have fears" In his poem “When I have fears” (DiYanni 714), John Keats attempts to put into words the human emotions felt when dealing with death. I believe that Keats wrote this poem to describe the natural order of emotions he went through while thinking of his own fate. The tone of the sonnet takes a “roller coaster” course throughout the poem from one quatrain to the next. With careful examination …showed first 75 words of 1100 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1100 total…death. The only question left to ask is how does one explain Keats sudden changes in mood? I believe the answer is that there is no answer. Keats does a wonderful job expressing how the human mind works throughout his poem, “When I Have Fears.” Sometimes when thinking about one particular fear or idea, the mind can be sent on a roller coaster ride that goes up and down from one emotion to the next.