Isn't La Belle Dame sans Merci really about venereal disease?

[jpgray]

I thought so. Keats could have shortened it:

Hey Bill--what's wrong? You look like crap.
I think the bitch gave me the clap.

[progmom]

1. ok. now you made me spit coffee all over my monitor.

bastard! :)

[jpgray]

2. This will be my first and last literary Lounge thread

Glad you were around for it. :D

[progmom]

6. why your last?

I found it utterly enjoyable. More - damn you! MORE!

[Lavender Brown]

3. I like "Autumn"

Now I feel like I should go back to make sure it's about what I think it's about... :)

[jpgray]

4. To be fair, in his correspondence he names a more innocent muse

But still!

[underpants]

5. I asked my mother this very recently

her response, "*uc* if I know"