Misogyny and Class Warfare
We took Keats’ life to be a taller ship
Of Poetry, Romance, and High Ideals,
But now we know through Motion’s scholarship
Keats danced to rather boorish, common reels,
Not only rules for minuets and verse.
He hated women when he wasn’t wowed
By this or that one. He thought them a curse:
Their sillinesses couldn’t be allowed
When he was at his noble writing task
And, even if he was in love, he fought
It, making his heart hard like a death mask.
Compared with epic lines, girls were a nought.
..And since his high-born enemies were crass,
….His soapbox words were (ho hum) of his class.