Thought Train to Pusan

I’m not exactly sure how to go about this review because poetry is not exactly something I read often (at all, really), nor do I know much about it, so everything here will be coming from a place of very little knowledge. So then why did I choose to read this collection of poems? Because I had an itch to try something not really in my comfort zone, you know, branch out to some new forms and see how it goes. And why John Keats? Well you see, I absolutely adore Ben Whishaw and was watching Bright Star wherein he plays Keats again, and thought hey! I don’t know that I’m actually familiar with Keats’ work as a poet at all? And so, here we are. Selected Poems includes a large selection of works from John Keats, from his longer, well-known volumes such as Endymion , to some shorter little verses –some of which he did not publish himself—often written for or in honor of a specific person. Overall there is a large focus on nature and beauty, and from what I can tell, t...