“When I Have Fears” is a poem written by John Keats. He uses a style of writing that has no periods in this particular poem. There are three when clauses, which put some separation in the writing. Identifying these clauses and examining them is this papers objective. The first clause starts with the first line, beginning with “When I have fears…” This clause talks about some intuition Mr. Keats has as he begins documenting his …showed first 75 words of 367 total…

…showed last 75 words of 367 total…love her but he wants to write about his feelings in his poetry. He can’t write about it if he doesn’t experience it. The last line “Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.” Is his way of saying that he is giving up on all of it. He knows he will never find her, and never write about it, hence he will never have love or fame, so they sink into nothing.