John Keats's poems "When I Have Fears" and "Bright Star" are remarkably similar, but at the same time drastically different. Shakespearean sonnets share rhyme scheme and subject matter, but deal with different aspects of the same topic. Both describe love as something extraordinarily important that one cannot live without, but neither reaches this conclusion until the end of the poem. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay. Both poems can be broken down to reveal the emotion rooted in the structure. “When I Have Fears” makes excellent use of parallel construction. The first 12 lines are divided into three sections, each composed of the word "when" and an action: "When I have fears..." (1), "When I see..." (5) and "When I feel. .." (9). Keats breaks this construction only for the couplet at the end of the poem. In this way, the speaker first explores his emotions, then realizes what the outcome is. “When I'm afraid” can also be broken down another way. Instead of three quatrains and a couplet, it can be separated into an octave and a sestet. During the first eight verses Keats focuses on reflections, while during the final sestina he makes a speech; the reader discovers that it is to a "beautiful creature of an hour" (9) that he is speaking. Keats seems to adhere to a Shakespearean structure, but falling into a Petrarchan mold due to the speaker's unstable emotion. Similarly, “Bright Star” is constructed in an octave followed by a sestina, with its turn producing a change of perspective for both speaker and reader. In this poem too Keats resorts to reflections up to line 9, where the topic turns to love and its lover. Indeed, love is the subject of both poems, although neither mentions it until the final sestet. “When I Have Fears” focuses on the speaker's fear of dying before being able to capture the true nature of romance on paper or experiment with artistic creation. We learn from lines 9-14 that he has such fears because a lover has left him; he will "never look at you again" (10). He is alone, and «Love and Fame sink into nothingness» (14). The focus of the poem changes in turn from the speaker to his lover and describes the effect she has on him. This is because love is subordinate to the speaker's poetic goals, but is central to his ability to achieve them. “Bright Star” has a similar change in vault; the focus of the poem changes from Keats's appreciation of nature to his feelings for his "just love" (10). While “When I Have Fears” waits until line 10 to reveal to whom the poet is speaking, “Bright Star” alerts the reader to the topic in the first line. The poem is addressed to a star and the speaker focuses on the beautiful aspects of the star until the final sestina, in which the focus changes and the speaker describes the similarities between himself and the star. Keats's deliberate choices of words and punctuation help uncover hidden emotions. “When I Have Fears” centers on a loved one, who is not present. However, the repetition of the word "I" reveals that the poem is actually about the author and his reaction to the absence of love. The numerous pauses and pauses in the poem's help reveal the speaker's dismay and intense emotion. There are a total of ten commas - they mostly break up thoughts, rather than complete them - two semicolons and a hyphen, which is preceded by an exclamation point. The word "I" is used seven times in 14 lines. With this repetition and hesitant placement of words, Keats skillfully shows that the speaker's mind is a jumble of disorganized thoughts. "Bright Star", which.