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Summary Of John Keats Bolt Of Beauty

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of the dirt. Neither brief delight, nor Dickinson’s “Bolt of beauty”—your graceful flutes of pink and white, and pearled stamen tips are temple dancers— trembling their phallic dust upon sheathed center of your velvet bowl, urging your secrets out of hiding as you celebrate things hidden in the earth… secrets growing from bulb’s womb stored in basement darkness for months, preparation for your balancing act that allows gravity’s permission to let you to stretch to outermost margins, great curved spans carrying you to your destiny—your silent song sung all night long, lingers more than stays…for beauty dares to be what at first we cannot imagine. …show more content…

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