Is it possible to love this intensely?

Beautiful film but to love someone this intensely is frightening. The loss would be too great. How wonderful for Keats & Fanny to have felt the full intensity of love. I almost envied them...

Yikes...I don't mean to offend you but to me this is naive thinking. Their love is volatile and destructive, even worse it's doomed to fail. I'd argue that it's even shallow. I thought their love was very much like puppy love or adolescent love. Their love is too intense, exaggerated creating a situation that is unstable for both of them. I guess it adds to the star crossed/doomed lovers aspect that you find in a lot of those drawing room dramas. Love is not a melodrama and I wouldn't envy anyone who had such an experience with love as that. There's so much misery in that type of a relationship with anyone. The only time you'd be happy is when your lover was around...that's not much of a life.

Love should be a liberating and happy experience, not a depressing or trapping one. I feel like this exact perspective is what destroys relationships for women later on. They grow up with these fairy tale stories of self sacrificial and destructive love affairs. Women need to be taught more realistic expectations of relationships.

Keep in mind...this is just a movie. The real life situation between Fanny and John Keats can't truly be understood by audiences today. A lot of this is fictional.