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Married happily for the rest of their lives?

posted 14 years ago by ncmmorris
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Do you think, that their love(as the representation is in this film rather than real life) was just the intensely felt 'first love' and would have come to a natural end? Or would they really have felt so connected if they had been able to live a lot longer together?
And therefore would you agree that it some ways it was better that he died prematurely so that even though it hurt her deeply and forever, she would remember their love, and him, and it's best.

[–] tigerbos 14 years ago

I think romanticizing a premature death is horrible. How could anyone wish such a thing on anyone? I wish he had lived and continued on to fame and fortune and prefer a happily-ever-after ending rather than the true to life tragedy!

I think she's the saddest girl ever to hold a martini.

[–] ncmmorris 14 years ago

I wouldn't say i was romanticizing a premature death at all. And I certainly wasn't wishing that on anyone. But haven't you heard the phrase remembering them at their best? Or going out on a high? I was merely suggesting that even though it is obviously tragic there another way of looking at it.
Same sort of thing with Romeo and Juliet. Any other ending to that story and it would of been all wrong. And obviously, I am talking about the film here not the real life events as I am hardly one to judge. The film would have taken artistic license afterall.

[–] aGuiltySoul 14 years ago

Who is to say? But Keats spoke of his relationship with Fanny as his life altering event. Before he met her he was cynical, especially about love and women. She widened his life and perspective and opened up his feelings. I think had he lived that they would have continued to enrich each other's lives. One needs to only read her letters that she wrote, for instance, to Keats' sister to see the depth of her feelings and the maturity she had obtained.

They think that I have [forgotten him] which I do not wonder at, for I have taken care not to trouble them with any feelings of mine, but I can tell you who next to me (I must say next to me) loved him best, that I have not got over it and never shall. --It's better for me that I shall not forget him but not for you, you have other things to look forward to, -Fanny Brawne to Fanny Keats

"I'd never ask you to trust me. It's the cry of a guilty soul."