i just watched the movie bright star; it centers around the biography of john keats... who is amazing!
i love the image above... he talks of a dream he has of him asleep on the tree tops, with all the flowers bloomed as he kisses perfect lips... the way he writes of love and the mystery of the heart is so... lyrical...
he wrote:
A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving into a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore but to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out, it is a experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept the mystery.
this movie spoke to my soul... i was in love...
i fall for most poetry... and the fact that he was a english romantic poet greatly helped me to love his work...
he does, for me, captivate what the romanticism movement really was at that time in the world...
he makes me miss my literature classes from college...
(image thanks to jonathanrosenbaum.com)
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