Page 165 - 100 Best Loved Poems - Teaching Unit
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“When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be”
by John Keats, page 48
Vocabulary
glean’d – gathered
teeming – crowded
1. What type of sonnet is this poem an example of?
2. What is the tone of the poem?
3. Find and identify a simile in the first five lines of this poem.
4. Find and identify an example of personification in the first five lines of this poem.
5. What theme in this poem seems to echo a theme found in John Keats’ “La Belle Dame
Sans Merci?”
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