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Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Dictum Diei: I bleed!

"I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!"

-Percy Bysshe Shelley, from "Ode to the West Wind"

This is in my opinion, perhaps the most hilarious line in English Romantic poetry. I can't read this line without imagining Shelley tripping into a bush, and immediately fainting with a shriek at the sight of his own blood. My image isn't appropriate in context of the poem, perhaps, but I still maintain that this is a rubbish line.

1 comment:

  1. Hilarious, but never rubbish.

    I think I'll add this to my ever-growing quote collection. And it's perfect.

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