KEATS & TUPAC
Tupac- Biography
I sold over 75,000,000 albums worldwide in my short lifetime.
I had a great deal of promise… I was good at what I did… and it was ended
all too soon.
I seemed to know it was coming…
Show Tupac Poem… “In the Event of my demise”
In the Event of My Demise
In the event of my Demise
when my heart can beat no more
I Hope I Die For A Principle
or A Belief that I had Lived 4
I will die Before My Time
Because I feel the shadow's Depth
so much I wanted 2 accomplish
before I reached my Death
I have come 2 grips with the possibility
and wiped the last tear from My eyes
I Loved All who were Positive
In the event of my Demise.
Keats - Biography
- A tragic man with great promise.
- Parents died… mother died of Tuberculosis.
- He trained to be a doctor, attended medical school… but decided that wasn’t for
him.
-Soon after, his brother came down with Tuberculosis… Keats knew about the
disease and how dangerous it was.
-but he tried to help brother back to health.
-He gets TB because of his exposure to his brother during the sickness.
When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
Before high-piled books, in charactery,
Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.
Do Tupac and Keats have similar fears?
Have you thought of these same fears?
What do the speakers fear?
Are these legitimate fears?
Have you had these fears yourself?
What similarities are there in the tone of these poems?
What do these similarities tell you about the nature of literature?
Does it comfort you to know that Tupac had these fears 15 years ago?
or that Keats had them two centuries ago?
Does this parallel change your view of literature at all?