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Bright Star, 2009
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Bright Star, 2009
Oh gods, thanks to a question of mine, I have a the biggest urge to watch this movie, but I have tons and tons of Psychiatry stuff to get through for an exam on Monday, for crying out loud. This will not do.
I will remember this scene forever and ever. So well done, so powerful and subtle at the same time. Augh, this is the worst— hate Saturday night studying!
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Bright Star, 2009
I was finally able to buy John Keats’ collected poems— and the volume is on it’s merry way! Can’t wait.
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Bright Star, 2009
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Bright Star
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“My dearest lady,
I am now at a very pleasant cottage window, looking onto a beautifully hilly country, with a view of the sea. The morning is very fine. I do not know how elastic my spirit might be— what pleasure I may have in living here if the remembrance of you did not weigh so upon me? Ask yourself, my love, whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair. I almost wish we were butterflies and lived but three summer days— three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. Will you confess this in a letter? You must write immediately, and do all you can to console me in it. Make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me, write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been.”
“My dear Mr Keats,Thank you for your letter. Lately I felt so nervous and ill I had to stay five days in bed. Having received your letter, I am up again, walking our paths in the heath. I’ve begun a butterfly farm in our bedroom in honor of us. Sammy and Toots are catching them for me— Samuel has made a science of it, and is collecting both caterpillars and and chrysalises so we may have them fluttering about us a week or more.”
I know Fanny’s response isn’t in the clip (unfortunately), but I added it anyway.
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Bright Star
By me.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Mark Bradshaw - Negative Capability, from Bright Star
Fanny: I still don’t know how to work out a poem.
John: A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore, but to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out, it is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.
Fanny: I love mystery.
John: I found your fairy princess on the wall in my room [referring to Fanny’s engraving when she had previously used the room].
Fanny: You could make her out?
John: She wears a butterfly frock. -
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