Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff

Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff - meaning Summary

Earthly Pleasures as Trinity

Keats’s short, playful poem voices a speaker who declares women, wine, and snuff his indispensable “Trinity,” pledging to enjoy them until the Day of Resurrection. The tone is convivial and humorous, treating bodily and social pleasures as steadfast comforts. Read as a youthful, lighthearted expression, it foregrounds appetite and irreverent wit rather than Keats’s later meditations on beauty and mortality.