Question regarding the poem recited during the end credits...
Does anyone know which poem/s of keats was recited during the end credits besides "Bright Star"?
It is his poem "Ode to a Nightengale."
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It is the greatest, most beautiful piece of literature (poetry or prose) written in any language, at any time -- past, present, and future: "Ode to a Nightingale"!!
"My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethewards had sunk; . . ."
Imagine being only 23 years old and writing that. My God(dess)!!
Please, please, please if you are unfamiliar with Keats's poetry, read him and remember that most of what he is remembered for (in that 1820 volume) was written within one year of his life and he was but 22 - 23 years old!!
That's how old I am right now and I can't write worth a damn.
Well, maybe I can write, and write very well, but I can't rhyme and nothing I ever write, no matter how old I live to be, will ever come near to Keats.
At which point, it's best to remember Browning:
"A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?” ... and keep writing.
I put the last scene and the credits on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idH6SFQUWIU
I strongly recommend you get your hands on Mark Bradshaw's beautiful soundtrack, which also features the recital (complete with the birds, the violins and the singing). In fact, I'm listening to it right now, and it's killing me softly.
Forlorn! the very word is like a bell. To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
Don't try to be John Keats. Be yourself. It's not a matter of better. It's a matter of different. I think Keats would agree.
And for god's sake, you're not writing a song lyric. Don't try to rhyme.
"I'd never ask you to trust me. It's the cry of a guilty soul."
Runekaster, I'm 23 myself, and when I think about it, it depresses the hell out of me, cause, like you, I wish I could write like that. I think people like John Keats are only born like once every century. But everyone has a talent. Find your own and develop it. And if it's writing, well, don't be threathened by writers like Keats. Don't compare yourself with geniuses. Just express yourself.
Btw, I agree with aGuiltySoul up here about rhyming. You don't have to rhyme to write poetry. John Keats was the last great Romantic poet, back then poets were used to rhyme; it was the zeitgeist. Nowadays it's an old fashioned construct, and it's certainly not a necessity.