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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