This is so fascinating! I had no idea Keats was training to be a surgeon! What I wouldn't give to have been there that night at Clark's to see Keats being roused into the poetic realm! Imagine if he had followed through with becoming a surgeon, that would have been devastating...
Very nice job. You captured and carried into the last analysis the powerful quality that good poetry or literature can do to us and for us and that is to transport us. "We have got out."
It is sobering to realize that when John Keats was my age he'd been dead for forty years. By his age I had not written a single poem. Andrew, on that very topic of coming close and seeing what the poet does here is a short poem of mine. https://westonpparker.substack.com/p/as-close-can-be
This is so fascinating! I had no idea Keats was training to be a surgeon! What I wouldn't give to have been there that night at Clark's to see Keats being roused into the poetic realm! Imagine if he had followed through with becoming a surgeon, that would have been devastating...
Very nice job. You captured and carried into the last analysis the powerful quality that good poetry or literature can do to us and for us and that is to transport us. "We have got out."
It is sobering to realize that when John Keats was my age he'd been dead for forty years. By his age I had not written a single poem. Andrew, on that very topic of coming close and seeing what the poet does here is a short poem of mine. https://westonpparker.substack.com/p/as-close-can-be
Thank you, Weston! Can't wait to read your poem :)
Delmore Schwartz wryly noted that the title of this poem could be construed as an announcement updating a controversial baseball game.