written during a bout of insomnia, he cries out "for ten years, that I may overwhelm/Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed/That my own soul has to itself decreed." And later in the poem he reiterates this sentiment with these lines: "And they shall be accounted poet kings/Who simply tell the most heart-easing things./O may these joys be ripe before I die."Nowhere in Keats' work is this dread expressed more clearly and forcefully than in his lyric Elizabethan sonnet "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be":
from Anthony Maulucci: Norwich Bulletin: On Poetry: Tragedy of Keats' life, death shown in his many works
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