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What do you think Keats means in these lines from “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be”? I may never live to trace / Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance . . . a. I may never live to paint pictures of them. b. I may never have a chance to look at them again. c. I may never leave the shadows as long as I live. d. I may never live to write about them. Please select the best answer from the choices provided A B C D

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D. I may never live to write about them

Step-by-step explanation:

When I Have Fears is a Shakespearean sonnet (also called the Elizabethan or English sonnet) written by the English Romantic poet John Keats. The Shakespearean sonnet is a poem that consists of three quatrains (stanzas consisting of four lines) and a couplet (a stanza consisting of two lines).

John Keats wrote this poem in January 1818, but it was published only in 1848. The poem tells about Keats' fears as a poet, including that he may die before he has written the volumes and forms of poetry that he is convinced he is capable of writing. That's what the lines I may never live to trace / Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance refer to. Thus, the correct answer is D.

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