Diagramming Keats

[Frank Antonson]

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," – that is allYe know on earth, and all ye need to know.That will be an interesting sentence to diagram. I hardly dare say the following, but I will say it anyway. Although I greatly admire Keats and his sensual poetry, I think this sentence, at least taken by itself, is simplistic. I'll write it off to hyperbole. Surely, religious people would say that there is material in the Bible or the Koran that "ye need to know". (And I am certainly glad that someone knows how to bake bread and brew beer.)

 

[Frank Antonson]

That sentence (sorry about the poor punctuation at the end of it) is going to be a challenge.
If anyone viewing out there would like to give it a shot, I would say that there is a sentence that can really test you mettle (metal?).
I plan to show the solution tomorrow.

 

[Frank Antonson]