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Did he or one of his accomplices here [or all 3 of them] kill him at a party on December 3rd 2006? Johnny Jeannevol confessed then retracted his co...
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Did he or one of his accomplices here [or all 3 of them] kill him at a party on December 3rd 2006? Johnny Jeannevol confessed then retracted his confession. Paul Roundhill was also there. Doherty will most likely know the answer but keeps silent. Here he is, running away from what must surely be a crime scene in which he has been implicated. Coward! But what do we expect of him...
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Heres a virtual movie of John Keats reading perhaps the closest poem he wrote to the predicament of his own brilliant short lived tragic life "...
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Heres a virtual movie of John Keats reading perhaps the closest poem he wrote to the predicament of his own brilliant short lived tragic life "When I have fears that I may cease to be"
Few poets ascend to the level of John Keats, and even fewer ascend to that level at such an early age. John Keats was only 26 years old when he died, however, he was considered, along with Wordsworth, to be the Romantic poet of the 19th century.
John Keats was born in 1795 in Moorfields, England, the son of a stableman who married the owner's daughter and eventually inherited the stable for himself. The elder Mr. Keats died when John was eight, leaving the family tied up in legal matters that would last the rest of John's life. He was fourteen when his mother died of tuberculosis, and fifteen when his guardian apprenticed him to an apothecary-surgeon. Soon after, John left the medical field to focus primarily on poetry.
In July 1820, John left England for Italy. Keats had been experiencing ill health and it was thought that the warmer air of Italy would help cure him. John and a friend took up residence in a home next to the famed Spanish Steps in Rome. He died of tuberculosis on February 23, 1821, at the age of twenty-six.
"When I have fears that I may cease to be" is an expression of Keats's melancholy. When he wrote this poem, he was still quite sick and it was obvious that his ill-health was not improving. As a consequence, he developed a negative outlook on life. He expressed himself with the following poem, one I consider to be among his finest.
When I have fears that I may cease to be........
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, upon 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;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unrelenting 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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Heres a virtual movie of the great John Keats reading his beautiful prosaic Love letter to the love of his life Fanny Brawne on the 13th October 18...
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Heres a virtual movie of the great John Keats reading his beautiful prosaic Love letter to the love of his life Fanny Brawne on the 13th October 1819.
Keats's letters to Fanny Brawne are among the most famous love letters ever written. As next door neighbors, they exchanged numerous short notes, and occasionally more passionate ones. None of Fanny's letters to Keats survive. From his, however, it seems he was often unsettled by her behavior and uncertain of her affection. His illness brought them closer; when he left for Rome, they were engaged and deeply in love.
Virtual Film was no doubt enormously expensive in 1819 so Keats slightly abreviated his slightly longer letter when being filmed for his reading ha ha.
Heres the original version..
25 College Street
My dearest Girl,
This moment I have set myself to copy some verses out fair. I cannot proceed with any degree of content. I must write you a line or two and see if that will assist in dismissing you from my Mind for ever so short a time. Upon my Soul I can think of nothing else - The time is passed when I had power to advise and warn you again[s]t the unpromising morning of my Life - My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving - I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you. I should be afraid to separate myself far from you. My sweet Fanny, will your heart never change? My love, will it? I have no limit now to my love - You note came in just here - I cannot be happier away from you - 'T is richer than an Argosy of Pearles. Do not threat me even in jest. I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist: and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I have endeavoured often "to reason against the reasons of my Love." I can do that no more - the pain would be too great - My Love is selfish - I cannot breathe without you.
Yours for ever
John Keats
John Keats (pronounced /ˈkiːts/; 31 October 1795 23 February 1821) was an English poet, who became one of the key figures of the Romantic movement. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Keats was one of the second generation Romantic poets. During his very short life, his work received constant critical attacks from periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Alfred Tennyson and Wilfred Owen would be immense. The poetry of Keats was characterised by elaborate word choice and sensual imagery, notably in a series of odes that were his masterpieces, and which remain among the most popular poems in English literature. The letters of Keats, which expound on his aesthetic theory of "negative capability",[1] are among the most celebrated by any writer.
Keats met Fanny Brawne (1800 - 1865) in 1818 and became engaged to Fanny Brawne (1800-1865). Because Keats could not afford to support a wife, they kept the engagement a secret from all but their closest friends. (It remained a secret to the general public till 1878, when his letters to her were finally published.) Keats wrote her a flood of notes and letters till March 1820. His expressions of love and its joys are mixed with pain and death.
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
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The lake is Rydal Water. John Keats once visited the Lake District. He admired some of Wordsworth's verse...his earlier poems.
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I have a very ordinary life in comparison, but I'm quite happy as long as music is part of it :)
Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart
xx
Annabel [beaming hugely]