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What does /lit/ think of Keats? Also post other Romantics you like

>> No.17466098

>>17466084
inb4 the Frater

>> No.17466132

>>17466098
Kek, I wasn’t actually going to reply but I’ll keep it short.

OP I personally really like him but a lot of anons have disagreements over his aesthetic. I would post a copy paste I wrote about his aesthetic but I’ve over posted it already, wouldn’t want to ruin the thread. You should check out William Blake, Edmund Spenser, Petrarch, Coleridge and Wordsworth.

>> No.17466184

>>17466132
Already have checked out most of them either because of school or from my anthology of romantic poets. I have a volume of selected Keats that I was reading this morning and just want some convo about the guy. Personally I really like him too

>> No.17466353

Ah! who can e’er forget so fair a being?
Who can forget her half retiring sweets?
God! she is like a milk-white lamb that bleats
For man’s protection. Surely the All-seeing,
Who joys to see us with his gifts agreeing,
Will never give him pinions, who intreats
Such innocence to ruin,—who vilely cheats
A dove-like bosom.

What does this part of his poem mean? What is specially confusing is the part where he says that the ''All-seeing would never give a person ''pinions'' who intreats such innoncence to ruin''.

>> No.17466435

>>17466353
I think that it means God will punish those who steal a woman’s innocence, but obviously in more nuanced terms than just sex. The part with the pinions in my opinions probably refers to God not allowing them into heaven and therefore not becoming an angel with wings ie pinions

>> No.17466483

>>17466435
Yes I thought this could be the meaning too, but giving pinions isn't something bad, like restricting, limiting? Why would then the All-seeing ''never give him pinions, who intreats such innocence to ruin''?

>The part with the pinions in my opinions probably refers to God not allowing them into heaven and therefore not becoming an angel with wings ie pinions
But then shouldn't it be ''the All-seeing... Will *certainly* give him pinions*...''?

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17466495

>>17466084
holy collection

>> No.17466520

>>17466483
pinions are the wings of a bird in flight. This is the way he means it, not as a binding

>> No.17466543

>>17466495
Don't miss out on Blake's plates. If you buy Penguin here: you are a fool.

>> No.17466558

>>17466543
the fuck are blake’s plates?

>> No.17466570

>>17466520
ohh yeah, i had the other meaning, that is its opposite, insisting on my mind. thank you anon

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17466604

>>17466558
His other Art, ya know the prints. Pic related is one of Blake’s paintings

>> No.17466671

>>17466604
s’alright, but I think im good without them. Do they correspond with the poems or is it just an aesthetic transfer?