I reckon it's all this reading Keats that does it. Only read Keats when you are feeling particularly robust and rosy or you are bound to end up feeling all bleh and wistful.
Here is a good robust poem instead:
A Good Poem
I like a good poem one with lots of fighting in it. Blood, and the clanging of armour. Poems
against Scotland are good, and poems that defeat the French with crossbows. I don't like poems that
aren't about anything. Sonnets are wet and a waste of time. Also poems that don't
know how to rhyme. If I was a poem I'd play football and get picked for England.
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Date: 2007-10-12 02:05 pm (UTC)Here is a good robust poem instead:
A Good Poem
I like a good poem
one with lots of fighting
in it. Blood, and the
clanging of armour. Poems
against Scotland are good,
and poems that defeat
the French with crossbows.
I don't like poems that
aren't about anything.
Sonnets are wet and
a waste of time.
Also poems that don't
know how to rhyme.
If I was a poem
I'd play football and
get picked for England.
-- Roger McGough
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Date: 2007-10-12 02:07 pm (UTC)