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Re: who am i? (i should resent that!)

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Byron

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Date Posted: 12:04:43 05/23/01 Wed
In reply to: keats_aka_medeis *shout out to blade* 's message, "who am i? (i should resent that!)" on 11:01:18 05/23/01 Wed

Yes, Keats...one of us "young" members of the Romantic Poets. Best given to Odes and poems about young women who would never bed...er...wed, that is. Tuberculosis...a terrible thing. But then try a club foot!

One of my favorite short poems by Keats, "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer"

MUCH have I travell�d in the realms of gold,
many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow�d Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star�d at the Pacific�and all his men
Look�d at each other with a wild surmise�
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

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don't forget me!!	Lord Tennyson	12:42:34 05/23/01 Wed