WHEN I HAVE FEARS THAT I MAY CEASE TO BE

Eduardo 2022-03-24 09:03:40

This is a blog post written a year ago, suddenly turned to and intercepted the record.

The title is from a poem by Keats that he wrote when he was invited to spend Christmas at Fanny's in the film. pure love, poetic love. Keats was 25 when he died. Is it also a jealous talent?

At the end of the movie "Bright Star", Fanny cut her hair, dressed in black, walking in the dewy wasteland, carrying the "bright star" that Keats once said was dedicated to her sadly, and there is such a paragraph at the end :

Fanny Brawne walked the Heath for many years, often far into the night. She never forget John Keats or removed the ring. Keats died at twenty five, believing himself a failure. Today he is recognised as one of the greatest of the Romantic Poets .

It is very uncomfortable to think of Jane Austen's unmarried life in writing reading notes today.

I always couldn't tell the difference between Keats, Shelley and Byron. I remembered the book "Forget the Old and Bring on the New York" (New York is not nostalgic) that I borrowed to learn English. There was an article "British Writers in Switzerland" that mentioned Byron and Shelley, and then I realized that they were good friends. .

George Gordon Byron (1788.1.22-1824.4.19), an outstanding representative of British Romantic literature.

Regarding Byron's last brilliance, Baidu gave this:

Byron left England for good in April 1816, and one biographer said he was "cast out of the country, bankrupt in purse and heart, and went away, never to return; but when he went away, In

1816, Byron was living in Switzerland, where he met another exiled poet Shelley, Their hatred of British rule and their love of poetry made them close friends.

During his sojourn abroad, Byron successively wrote "The Travels of Childe Harold" (1816-1817), the story poem "The Prisner of Chillon" (The Prisner of Chillon1816), and the tragedy "Manfred" (1817). , long poem "Bronze Century" (1823) and so on. The masterpiece "Don Juan" is Byron's most important group of poems. It is half-romantic and half-harmonic, with narration and discussion. It has realistic content and strange, light-hearted and ironic writing. After the first and second chapters were published anonymously, they immediately aroused huge repercussions. The British press for bourgeois decency has attacked it, accusing it of attacking religion and morality, of being "a satire of decency, of good feeling and of the code of conduct necessary for the maintenance of society", of "disgusting every normal mind", etc. Wait. But at the same time, it is also highly praised. Writer Walter Scott said that "Don Juan" "is as all-encompassing as Shakespeare, he covers every subject of life, plucks every string on the sacred harp, strums the tiniest to the strongest and the most soul-shaking." "Don Juan" is a work of utter genius - cynicism to the point of reckless poignancy, tenderness to the most delicate and touching point of graceful emotion...", said the poet Goethe. After the sixteenth chapter of Don Juan, Byron was ready to devote himself to the national liberation movement in Greece.

This is the last and most glorious page of the poet's life. He hated both the oppression of the European nations by the "Holy Alliance" launched, and the Turkish domination of Greece. In 1824, Byron was busy with preparations for war, but unfortunately he was caught in the rain and cold. His death deeply mourned the Greek people, and the whole country mourned for 21 days.

My conception of Byron is probably limited to Don Juan. I didn't even know Prometheus before.

And Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the most talented lyric poets in the history of English literature. William Wordsworth once called it "One of the best artists of us all", and Byron of the same period called it "Without exception the best and least selfish man I ever knew", and he was more known as a poet among poets. His life knowledge is extensive, not only a Platonist, but also a great idealist. The poems created are fast-paced and positive.

What impressed me most was his and his second wife Mary Shelley's pure ideals of love and marriage. Admirable.

Went to the library and borrowed "The Selected Lyrics of Byron Shelley Keats", which has this passage:

GG Byron (1788-1824), PB Shelley (1792-1822), J. Keats (1795- 1821), three young elves, with their short lives, the blossoms of romanticism blossomed. The romantic movement in British poetry is another golden period with far-reaching influence after Shakespeare's period in the history of British poetry, and it has a great influence on the world literature. Mr. Wang Zuoliang said: "Wordsworth and Coleridge were the founders of romanticism, Byron spread the influence of romanticism all over the world, Shelley looked forward to the world through romanticism, but they were absorbing the essence of their predecessors. It is not as effective as Keats in influencing the poetry of future generations."


Finally, I dedicate this poem by Keats:

When I have fears that I may cease to be

Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,

Before high piled books, in charactry,

Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain;

When I behold, on the night's starr'd face,

Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,

And think that I may never live to trace

Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;

Ande when I feel, fair creature of an hour,

That I shall never look upon thee more,

Never have relish in the fairy powr

Of unreflecting love;-then on the shore

Of the wide world I stand alone,and think

Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

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Extended Reading
  • Carter 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    The dazzling love poems make the whole film romantic and gorgeous, and the delicate and restrained emotions are beautiful without being sentimental or lustful. The model of the new school of literary dramas, Campion of "Piano Lesson" returns. "I just want to be firm, put my head on my lover's soft bosom, and always feel its soothing ups and downs. When I wake up, my heart is full of sweet stirrings, and I constantly listen to her delicate breathing, and live or die in a coma."-

  • Kaylah 2022-03-26 09:01:13

    The subject matter...the point of view...so I like the female director's drama!

Bright Star quotes

  • Margaret 'Toots' Brawne: Fanny wants a knife.

    Mrs. Brawne: What for?

    Margaret 'Toots' Brawne: To kill herself.

  • John Keats: In what stumbling ways a new soul is begun.