Though frustrated by the mutability of human existance Keats ultimately accepts it

... Nicola White Though frustrated by the mutability of human existence, Keats ultimately accepts it John Keats wrote during the Romantic Period, which was a time of great change due to events such as the Industrial Revolution. Keats expresses this transformation in his poems as it reflects his lifestyle. In two of his poems, 'When I have fears that may cease to be' and 'Bright Star' Keats conveys the mutability of human existence and how he grudgingly learns to accept it, as the poem progresses. These two poems illustrate a feeling of frustration within his personal experience. Keats had a relatively depressing childhood, which may have led to frustration and fear of change in his life. Keats experienced deaths in his family, he had a sister and three brothers die at birth and his father was killed when he was eight. He refers to the trepidation of death in both

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