FEARS OF LIVING

Throughout Keats’s poem my feelings about the life’s process come into my mind and they star to give time to think about myself. I always think about how would be my life in the future, even though I live it every day doing my best. But, I can not cease to think about how complex living is. Having read this poem and after the discussion in class, my fears about death are complex to explain, because death is part of our process here in the earth. However, the way of my death and one of my family’s deaths is what I am scared of. I used to feel alarm of pain, illness, loneliness and how much love I can leave here.Maybe it is that fear of beung remembered or not.
I try to live with all implications (good or bad). I try to take advantages from wrong or right issues and naturally I try to do my best to overcome the wrong ones. But, what I fear the most in my life is being alone. Not loving someone, not taking care of someone and not hugging someone else is extremely painful for me. I can not predict the future, If I die without love I will die empty. Maybe after my life in the Earth I will live in somewhere else and there; I wish I could continue loving someone and sharing with someone.

Kubla Khan (Coleridge)

1. “Poetry is an art…of representing, in words, external nature and human thoughts and affections, both relatively to human affections, by the production of as much immediate pleasure in parts, as is compatible with the largest sum of pleasure in the whole”.

According with what I felt reading some romantic poems so far this is the best quotation for me. Nature is always present metaphorically in romanticism. Considering what Coleridge was trying to say in his poem Kubla Khan we can say that throughout the external nature he is showing his own thoughts and affections. People were not leaving with the simplicity of the life. They just wanted to have more pleasure, which is represented by sexual pleasure, luxury, goods, money and so on.
It’s not easy to express ourselves without care of what other people can think. Hence, using metaphor is an artistic way to say thoughts. Poetry is an art says the quotation.I can say that it is an artabsolutely , because of the mixture of simplicity and complexity of words and feelings.

Interpretation of The Little Black Boy

The Little Black Boy is a very appealing poem, because it has elements which are tangible to the reader. At the same time, there are some important elements which are intangible, thus there is a good mixture into the poem. God, Nature, Man and eternity are established aspects into The Black Little Boy. Certain words give to the reader what the poem’s environment is and even more if we can put the poem in paintings. I chose a Mary Cassat’s painting called “Woman preparing to wash her sleepy child” I focused my election mainly o what the poem made me felt. Throughout the painting we can see affection, love, security, confidence, protection or simply the nature of being mother. The author tells us how her mother educated him and how much love and protection she gave him. Hence, I chose this painting based on the protection and affection of mothers to their children.