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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Which British Romantic Poet are You?
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I am George Gordon, Lord Byron -- saw that coming a mile away.
Hmmm -- never really saw you as the Byronic type. Perhaps the geographical interests...?
I'm Lord Byron too - sans the limp.
LOL -- okay, that really doesn't fit. Wow -- I'm questioning the accuracy of a MySpace quiz? HA HA HA!
Gah! I'm Keats. I feel a cough coming on... I don't even know why I took this quiz. I have no patience for the froofy Romantics in general (I don't include Blake in this).
Ah, but in my youth, my lost, ragged, shining youth....
Miss Wendy --
Blake was singular, indeed; not part of a movement. Sorry about the cough, but there is the lovely house in Hampstead.
Crispinus --
I have seen pictures from that youth. Ahem -- still not really Byronic. But perhaps I overlook the poetry in your soul. Absit invidia...
I am...
George Gordon, Lord Byron!
Whatever that means...
"Mad, bad, and dangerous to know" according to one of his lovers.
Byron had a life that overshadowed his writing at the time, but his work has kept much of its power.
I am... Miss Wendy! Well, Keats.
Watch out for Grecians bearing urns!
I have been to your house, Mr. Keats -- it was very nice!
I can't believe that this is the post to get the most comments in ages.
"Byron was as well-known for his lifestyle as for his remarkable works. He was a poet, athlete, womanizer, and gunrunner, who was once accused of writing poetry “in which the deliberate purpose…is to corrupt.” He died at 36."
Hmmm. Not sure how I got this result.
- Remarkable?… I’m a jane-of-all-trades but master of none
- I’m SO not athletic
- I am a woman, not a womanizer
- Gunnrunner? My dad made me shoot a .22 when I was a kid, but I’m no Dick Cheney.
- I’m not out to corrupt anybody, just enlighten them, but I can see how that perspective would depend upon point of view.
- Last but not least, I’ve already outlived this dude.
Hee hee, Kate. It's just that the Romantics are so "controversial."
Kim --
Cheers on outliving Byron! We're glad you're not a second Cheney -- we didn't need the first.
Miss Wendy --
You are so right. The Damien Hirsts of their time! Or he's the Romantic of our time -- or Byronic? or whatever! Bad analogy, I guess. He's looking old for an enfant terrible.
Your Result: You are John Keats!
Ars gratis artis! Keats had only one idea, but it was a good one: "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty." Unlike the other British Romantics, he didn't have a political agenda. He died at 26.
I hate poetry.
And, Kate, sometimes I just don't have anything brilliant to riposte with to your brilliant posts...
Thanks for taking my quiz! Just an English teacher having fun.
BTW I was Byron. :)
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Hey, Ghost Dog!
Great handle -- hope it's because you're a Jarmusch fan.
The quiz was fun. It certainly provoked a bit of chat here.
Took a look at your blog: forty-one errors in a five paragraph essay?! I can believe it all too well. I'm so very fortunate to not have to teach freshman composition anymore -- hurrah!
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