Longfellow speaks with a much more dignified tone; one could even consider it casual. This hints at a midlife crisis, as Longfellow frantically searches “for restless passions (Longfellow 6)”, and never succeeds. From the explanations given in the poems, it’s clear that both authors had quite polar reasons for their destruction: Keats toils in his affliction, which explains his lack of vivid emotion, and Longfellow dotes of the many of life’s merriments that he failed to seek. Both poems follow a similar pattern of rhyme schemes: both Keats and Longfellow endured the hardships of life and never attempted to remedy their sorrow. As the poems come to an end, both Keats and Longfellow display their thoughts of self-humiliation, which points to their sacrifice of achieving their goals. From the wording of the poems, it’s blatantly obvious that both Keats and Longfellow had their own select choice of wording in order to convey their inner thoughts. As “When I Have Fears” opens up, Keats begins immediately begins to speak of death without directly referencing the word “death” itself. This…