John Keats’s When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be and Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus each deal with the subject of death, specifically the way in which one’s attitude toward death affects the quality of one’s life. The speakers in each poem hold opposing views on death, Keats’s narrator paralyzed by a dread of death and Plath’s spurred on by an attraction to it. In both poems, the form and language work to mirror these conceptions of death and to instill them viscerally in the experience of the reader.
-Leena
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