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What's This? Benny Benwick
Benny Benwick is a widower or no he was intended to marry excuse me um Captain Harville's sister and both of these guys are friends of Captain Wentworth from the Navy you know. And Benwick is I don't think that song was about the English Navy. But then she thinks she says this about poetry kind of through the narrator's voice. She thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely. It's just an interesting way to talk about the catch 22 of like really deep feeling art.