
John Keats
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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The Unravished Bride of Quietness
In the first version of this there was a comma, now I don't normally go that heavily into punctuation as to be referring to commas that aren't there anymore. But in the end he decided that still unravished, so still unbroken and if he's talking about the women on the Earn never consummated in love because you are frozen in time on this Earn. Though foster child of silence and slow time everything about the Earn is silent. A foster child I suppose because the person who made it is now dead, the parent of the Earn if you like, but everyone from the era that produced it is dead. So we now are fostered it. It is in
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