Girl confessing as a geek.

Thursday 29th January 2009.

My day today has been a massive improvement on yesterday, always a good starting point eh?
This evening I have been unbelievably cool by reading various critics for a poem we're studying in English Literature. As much as I love delving into things that I didn't understand and then finally coming back up with a small grasp of the meaning of it... sometimes I find it damned hard. But surely that's the sole purpose of things you love: to challenge you to your limits and you're still able to come out with passion remaining. Yes, yes I know, corney.
But while reading some of the critics' opinions on it I discovered a very interesting point that Keats may have been trying to get across to his audience.
"However self-destructive and intense love may be, the lover has little choice in the matter."
I think that is one of the best phrased honest philosophies I have ever heard. It is so true of so many things. I'm not sure I could have unearthed that from a poem of Keats' but now I've read it the meaning of the whole poem suddenly shows how vulnerable he made himself to anyone who was patient enough to untangle his twisted riddles.

Girl confessing as a geek.
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