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John Keats was very conflicted when it came to love; on the one hand, he believed, as he wrote in the introduction to Endymion Book 2 that love is split voor Prom Dresses the Trouwjurken universal language of poetry, and thereby the most beautiful and meaningful thing in the world. However, when it came to real life, he was much more skeptical. He had watched his bachelor friends give up their dreams and aspirations to marry and keep a job, and he was absolutely certain not to fall into Korte Trouwjurk the same trap, which would, of course, have meant actually practicing medicine, which he had long avoided.
This sonnet denouncing love was written, probably towards the end of 1818, right about the time he met and fell in love with Fanny Brawne. Her influence was to dominate the rest of his life. He did numerous times consider giving up poetry for medicine so that they might marry, but his illness prevented any real decision from being made until it was too late.
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