Lyric Life

John Keats, "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles"


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I've seen this sonnet the same way for thirty years. Then a student made me question everything I think about it. That's the secret of great poetry: it has the power to make itself new over and over again, even an old chestnut like this sonnet by John Keats.
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Lyric LifeBy Mark Scarbrough