Very Well said.
A new high for the Forums, Tenyson being quoted!!!
Meh, he was no Keats.
Fair point I guess, Keats certainly influenced Tennyson and the similarity in themes is obvious, (compare Ode to a Nightingale and The Lotus Eaters), but this was from a younger, greener poet still held by the chains of Romanticism. I think he changed after his friend Hallem died after that it's difficult to compare them but I'm no expert.
The influence of these two gargantuan poets of a forgotten time on Ricki leaving may have some resonance somewhere but at present it eludes me.
Deloras - Yeats now you're talking.
T.S. Eliot - The Hollow Men maybe?