Comparing When I Have Fears By John Keats And The Nineteenth Century

“When I Have Fears” by John Keats and the Nineteenth Century

Amber Martin

University of Phoenix

The nineteenth century from the years of 1801-1900 was a period when people were transformed from the Industrial Revolution. This period was full of battles, wars, and fights to try and settle disagreements and live toward a better tomorrow. All the battles turned into a nightmare, and began to make it hard to survive. The living conditions were awful; sicknesses with no cure, killings with no empathy, large groups of people with nowhere to go, necessities but living in poverty, and so many other challenges. With most children from as little as the age of five were working and trying to help in any way possible; from working underground in the coal mines to cleaning chimneys. The nineteenth century literature were often persuaded by these historical, political, and

The poem that best describes living life in the nineteenth century and still functioning well would be a poem by John Keats called “When I Have Fears”. This poem was written in iambic pentameter which means it has a rhythmic pattern with five iambs per line (Shmoop, n.d.). Keats was a young famous poet but most of his work was not published until after his death, which was very common in this century of age. He wanted his poems to be the cornerstones of the nineteenth century and wrote many of them before he passed away at the age of twenty-five in 1821 (Shmoop, n.d.). Since, this day most people didn’t live long they lived each day like it was there last but Keats suffered most of his life with tuberculosis. As stated earlier, tuberculosis was one of the top causes of death in the nineteenth century. This romantic writer was one of the many of romance writers in the