16 maio 2009

Bright Star, filme de Jane Campion


A história de amor entre o poeta britânico John Keats (Londres, 1795 - Roma, 1821) e a sua encantadora vizinha Fanny Brawne, vista pelo olhar de Jane Campion (Wellington, Nova Zelândia, 1954). Um filme cheio de sussurros, borboletas e versos.

Bright star, would I were stedfast é parte do primeiro verso de um poema redigido em 1819 (imagem acima) por Keats. Que reza assim:

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art -
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors -
No - yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever - or else swoon to death.




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