“When I have fears that I may cease to be” by John Keats

As a romantic poet, Keats dealt with nature, but he emphasized on human nature. Clearly fear is one of the most important aspects in human beings. All of us have felt fears in our lives and in my personal experience I have felt fears that frighten me; however I have never wanted to cease to be. After reading this poem I think he was very pessimistic about his life. And I realized that he felt fears about the rational world and love and not being remembered.
Having read his inscription on his tombstone, this reads: “Here lies one whose name was writ in water”, I could understand better his fear of not being remembered. He wrote that because when someone writes something in the water, it can’t endure for a long time. Nevertheless maybe he never thought that he will be always remembered for his poems and his inscription.

Kubla Khan or or A Vision in a dream ......

"It is essential to poetry that it should be simple, and appeal to the elements and primary laws of nature; that it should be sensuous, and by its imagery elicit truth at a flash; that it should be impassioned, and be able to move our feelings and awaken affection”.

What does this quote mean with simple? Should poems be simple in the way of appealing to our feelings? Are poems simple? In that part of the quote we can interpret as simple in the way of easy to read or to understand. For me the more challenging the poem is, the more think about it. I read many times Coleridge’s poem and every time I read it I gave different interpretations, I discussed it with my classmates and I realized that is not simple in that sense. So, what does this quote mean with that?

Another aspect that I found in this poem is that it is very affective due to the fact it is a representation of a dream and clearly it represents the human thoughts and feelings. It also appeals to our imagination, for the reason that the poem gives us the notion of a mystical place and through our imagination we can go there and we can be part of it. He used his imagination to create this beautiful poem, and we have to use it to go to that wonderful place.

To conclude, Kubla Khan has most of the elements that the quote refers, it is excellent to encourage our imagination.

The Little Black boy by Blake

The mother and Child
Pablo Picasso

How wonderful is when our mother kisses and hugs us. That instant is pure and natural and it is tangible because we can touch and see her and we can feel her love. We will never forget all the moments that we have lived with her.
That’s why I believe that when the little black boy recalled all the instants that he lived with his mother and all the things that she taught him were always in his mind and in his soul, and for that reason when he told his story, he played with the past and the present as they were always together.
Another important aspect is that the mother taught her son about the world and God through nature. For instance, when she said him “Look on the rising sun: there God does live..” she took an instant “ the rising sun” to explain him where God lives. So nature gives as the idea of eternity and divinity due to the fact that God, who is an intangible being, has created it.