Biographical Poetry posted November 2, 2024 |
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A perspective on a life
In Memorium (John Keats)
by estory
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This poem is a tribute in some ways to one of my favorite poets, the great John Keats, who wrote some of the most influential poems of the romantic era. He and Fanny Braun, his fiancee, were among the romantics, and the lives they lived, truly romantic in tragedy as well as triumph. They were never able to consumate their marriage since Keats was diagnosed with tuberculosis soon after, and he died at age 24 in Italy. It is worth thinking about that he wrote such amazing poems as Bright Star, Ode to Autumn and Ode to a Grecian Urn while still quite young. Fanny never remarried, and the legend is that she wandered the moors reciting his poems. But while they couldn't find happiness in real life, they wrote some of the greatest poems that still inspire us to this day. I encourage all to read his amazing work. But this poem is also about our perception of what he was, versus what the reality of his life was. All these years later, we romanticize the pain and the tragedy that they must have felt. And while we can resurrect their poetry, we don't really know what THEIR feelings about these poems were. We are left with the romantic imperfection of experience. estory
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