The poem “When I have Fears” reflects upon the speaker’s fears towards death. The speaker fears that he will not be able to accomplish his goals before he dies. He utilizes various personification and metaphors in order to reflect upon the things that he will not be able to complete as a poet and lover. The poem begins by personifying the pen, “Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,” this conveys the idea that his writing will never be fully captivated. It seems as if the pen is given the ability to physically pick out ideas from his mind and put them into writing. This also serves as a metaphor because he continues to compare his writing to “rich garners the full-ripen’d grain.” He uses the words “full ripen’d” in order to suggest that his writing abilities is like that of a fruit; it is not yet ripened, or developed. This metaphor reflects to the main idea of the poem; the ripening of fruit, and the development of his writing, takes time, which is something he has little of. In the second part of the poem, Keats continues to use metaphors and personification to exemplify the idea death and his running out of time. He states that he wants to sit underneath the “night’s starr’d face” so that he may be inspired by “huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.” Again he uses personification and personifies the night to give him inspiration perhaps for love stories. The idea of limited time arises one again when he states that he “may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.” The word shadows seems to provide an abstract image of the night’s romantic symbols, implying that he can only understand the outline of it and never able to fully grasp the whole picture. The third part of the poem changes views from the loss of his chances to fulfill his literary goals to the love that he will lose in death. He fears that he will never be able to fully develop his love for a “fa