Morrissey visits the grave of John Keats
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Morrissey visits the grave of John Keats
by Cath » Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:42 am
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"Why should we be owls, when we can be Eagles?" (Keats to Reynolds, 3 February 1818)
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Re: Morrissey visits the grave of John Keats
by Saturn » Tue Jun 11, 2013 1:18 pm
Eugh Morrissey, a hideous flowery-shirted poser and miserable git, leaning on the grave of a genius!
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Re: Morrissey visits the grave of John Keats
by Cath » Tue Jun 11, 2013 1:57 pm
I hope I'm not being picky, but I think it's a little disrepectful he has his foot on the grave & is "embracing" it...
"Why should we be owls, when we can be Eagles?" (Keats to Reynolds, 3 February 1818)
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Re: Morrissey visits the grave of John Keats
by Ennis » Sat Jun 15, 2013 3:48 pm
Cath wrote:I hope I'm not being picky, but I think it's a little disrepectful he has his foot on the grave & is "embracing" it...
The foot thing - yeah, but I don't think "embracing" it is disgraceful (although it looks more as if he's just leaning against it). I'm not ashamed to admit when I was there, I embraced and kissed it, and I, obviously, didn't feel as though I was being disrespectful. As a matter of fact, I felt the opposite. It did embarrass my brother, I think. At least we were the only ones there at the moment (as my brother would express in relief - I would have done it, unashamedly so, if the entire population of Rome was in attendance.), but it was only about 30 minutes before the 4 o'clock closing.
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Re: Morrissey visits the grave of John Keats
by BrokenLyre » Wed Jun 26, 2013 3:30 am
I love reading your last post Ennis - I envy your opportunity to see Keats' grave site. Loved the way your shared that with us!
"I would have done it, unashamedly so, if the entire population of Rome was in attendance" - awesome!!
Like Jane Campion, she did the same.
"I would have done it, unashamedly so, if the entire population of Rome was in attendance" - awesome!!
Like Jane Campion, she did the same.
"Come... dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly. Dry your eyes... and let's go home."
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Re: Morrissey visits the grave of John Keats
by Raphael » Fri Jun 28, 2013 1:15 am
Saturn wrote:Eugh Morrissey, a hideous flowery-shirted poser and miserable git, leaning on the grave of a genius!
Pity my mother who had to listen to my brother Phil's Morrissey LPS in the 1980s. She found them dirge like. I also have to confess I used to listen to him as well as I was bit of a lefty back then- we have both moved on, glad to say.
John....you did not live to see-
who we are because of what you left,
what it is we are in what we make of you.
Peter Sanson, 1995.
who we are because of what you left,
what it is we are in what we make of you.
Peter Sanson, 1995.
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Re: Morrissey visits the grave of John Keats
by Cathat906 » Wed Dec 30, 2020 2:03 pm
"A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
While Wilde is on mine
So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
All those people, all those lives
Where are they now?
With loves, and hates
And passions just like mine
They were born
And then they lived
And then they died
It seems so unfair
I want to cry"
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
While Wilde is on mine
So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
All those people, all those lives
Where are they now?
With loves, and hates
And passions just like mine
They were born
And then they lived
And then they died
It seems so unfair
I want to cry"
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