Sunday, October 18, 2020

The Unfashion of the Romantics - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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The Unfashion of the Romantics

 

…the romance of intellectual adventure.

 

-Daisy Hay, preface to Young Romantics

 

Thesis:

 

The Romantics are simply demode, my dear

Those structured paleo-colonialists

Who rattle on about flowers and love

And craft blank verse about walks in the wood

 

Antithesis:

 

Oh, but note, if you will, young lovers who

Thoughtlessly put their sunlit heads together

Over an open Keats, reading to each other

Among the unwritten leaves of their youth

 

And now note, if you will, young thinkers who

Thoughtfully put their sunlit words together

Over an open Byron, arguing for freedom

Among and for the peoples of the earth

 

Synthesis:

 

The young are lines of iambic pentameter

New lines, new lives, discovered in each other

 

 

 

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