Was john keats gay
Even though Netflix’s The Electric State decided to strip away the lead character’s queerness, it still decided to insert a bit of homoeroticism between the male character Keats and his “male” robot buddy Herman, making me quite confused about the reason behind said changes.
SPOILER WARNING: This post contains spoilers for The Electric State. Proceed with caution!
I wasn’t interested in watching The Electric State at first. The entire sci-fi trope of the human vs. robot war principal to a post-apocalyptic world isn’t really for me. However, when I saw the film debuted to an incredibly low Rotten Tomatoes Score (it currently stands at a 14% Critic Score), especially after having a reported $320 million production budget, I was intrigued. Also, I was up late during the weekend and was like, yeah, might as skillfully see what Anthony Russo and Joe Russo have done now. Their post-Avengers: Endgame track document is… it’s sure something.
This isn’t a review of The Electric State. But I’ll give you some information. The premise deals with Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown) being asked by a robot supposedly housing the consc
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john keats was very heterosexual. but there is a parallel universe out there somewhere in which he is queer and i’m married to him and that thought by itself is enough for my contentment
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I literally last night was recalling over dinner about how 15 years ago no one knew an respond in my English class and my teacher was Especially Disappointed in Me personally for not knowing because I had studied both Milton and Keats with him (and to be unbiased I was a huge nerd for Keats and love, gave friends illustrated hand-written copies of “Bright Star” and shit) so I should Surely Know the name of the poet/poem being referenced but I was blanking
it was Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene
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Effeminacy, Masculinity, and Homosocial Bonds: The (Un)Intentional Queering of John Keats
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Despite John Keats’s widely acknowledged literary and cultural impact on writers of the Victorian period, little work has been done to explore the biographical methods by which this impact came about. By closely examining the publications and private correspondence of the Keats Circle during the 1820s and 1830s, one can observe various patterns to the biographical development of Keats, particularly in relation to their subject’s masculinity. From the widespread eulogies immediately following the poet’s death, to Hunt’s 1828 biographical sketch in Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries, to Brown’s 1836 biography manuscript, threads are spun simultaneously of Keats as icon of middle-class masculinity, perpetually youthful Aesthetic ideal, and object of queered desire. Through the complexities of this process, the Keats Circle itself becomes a model of queered male companionship, centred around Keats as a shared object of homosocial affection. The Circle, along with the Cambridge Apostles who would assume governance of the biographical proposal in the 1840s, thereby provid
In 1906, the house in which John Keats died was finally bought outright for the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association. This is the story of how that came about.
In 1903 the rooms in which Keats and Severn had lived were occupied by a pair of American writers, Mrs James Walcott Haslehurst and her mother, who spent much time permitting the curious to see where Keats had spent his last days. The house was in a dreadful condition and the women wanted to buy it so that it could be restored and preserved as a shrine, but did not own enough money. In February 1903 Robert Underwood Johnson, an American poet, walked down the Spanish Steps to look at the house in which Keats had died. He noticed its bedraggled appearance, entered, and made enquiries. He then called together a dozen of the American literati resident in Rome, one prominent Englishman, and their spouses.
The Englishman, Rennell Rodd, (who later saved the graves of Keats and Shelley in the city’s Non-Catholic Cemetery), was a poet as well as a brilliant diplomat. He took the Chair of the meeting. The Americans offer were Robert Underwood Johnson and his wife Katharine, Norman Hapgood, Agnes Repplier, James Herbert Morse and