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What are your thoughts on this poem, /lit/?

Let Dew The Flowers Fill by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Yesterday's poem >>19755332

>> No.19761446
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19761446

>Thomas Lovell Beddoes (30 June 1803 – 26 January 1849) was an English poet, dramatist and physician.
>Beddoes' work shows a constant preoccupation with death. In 1824, he went to Göttingen to study medicine, motivated by his hope of discovering physical evidence of a human spirit which survives the death of the body. He was expelled, and then went to Würzburg to complete his training. He then wandered about practising his profession, and expounding democratic theories which got him into trouble. He was deported from Bavaria in 1833, and had to leave Zürich, where he had settled, in 1840.
>He continued to write, but published nothing.
>He led an itinerant life after leaving Switzerland, returning to England only in 1846, before going back to Germany. He became increasingly disturbed, and committed suicide by poison at Basel, in 1849, at the age of 45.

>> No.19761926

Bump

>> No.19761984

>>19761443
How should I go about trying to understand what the fuck this means?

>> No.19762074

>>19761984
Sounds like a visit to the grave of a loved one who maybe committed suicide because of romantic mishaps.

>> No.19762576

bump

>> No.19762668

you guys ever notice how most poetry is about flowers and nature and now humans no longer even go outside
what will we write poems about now, video games and consoomer debt?

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19762679

>>19761443
DO NOT PICK THE FLOWERS
pic related from a few days ago
on that theme
>>meaning
meaning what we want them to mean.
Herrick's flowers and these stand outside meaning, doing their flower thing whether we busy pit minds with them or not.

>> No.19762683

>>19762679
pit minds our minds
>>19762668
you should go outside

>> No.19762836

>>19762074
I couldnt really make any sense of the last lines besides them trying to soind quoteworthy, but I guess that makes sense

>> No.19763479

Bump

>> No.19763517

>>19763479
Fuck off, no one cares.

>> No.19764443

Bump

>> No.19764447

>>19764443
Fuck off, no one cares