Melancholy
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Vision of a Paramour Part 1: MelancholyThe inevitable sadness of Love poem/short story series
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MelancholyWhat does melancholy mean to you? This is how if has affected me on this particular day. -
The Melancholy Beauty of Shakespeare's Worlds: The Mind of the Greatest Writer in English LiteratureA delve into the melancholy mind of the greatest writer in English Literature. -
Seven Operatic Arias of Sorrow to Help Enhance Your MelancholyWhy cry alone when you could have a sympathetic company who can intone your sorrows for you in tunes you could never carry on your own? Here are 7 of my favorite songs of melancholy from the opera. Get the Kleenex and listen on! -
Three Books that Should Be Movies: "Father Melancholy's Daughter," "She's Come Undone" and "Mama Hattie's Girl"Ever read a book you can't put down? Here are three books that should be made into movies: Father Melancholy's Daughter, She's Come Undone and Mama Hattie's Girl.
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Flavorful Odes: Ode On Melancholy and To Autumn by John KeatsAn essay designed to build a bridge between two of Keats' works, "Ode On Melancholy" and "To Autumn", by establishing their interdependence on one another.
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MelancholyA melancholy poem.
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Anime Review The Melancholy of Haruhi SuzumiyaThis is a quick sneek-peek of the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, and what we might expect from season two of the series.
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The Melancholy TrainThis is the beginning of a novel that I have just started to write. It may not become a very lenghty novel but it is planned on being completed sometime in early 2010.
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A POEM of MELANCHOLYMy whole sadness begin here. At the end of your sharp hair. The morning fog of your eyes, a glass marquise syrup and the love I smell in your lonely breath.
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Madness as a Function of Familial Misunderstanding and Melancholy in Hamlet and King LearHamlet and King Lear stand out among the works of the Shakespearean canon for both their cultural pervasiveness and their inherent ingeniousness. -
Milton's Blake: The Influence of Mirth and Melancholy on Innocence and ExperienceAn analytical look at Renaissance writer John Milton's poems "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso" through the lense of Romantic writer William Blake's book of poetry, Songs of Innocence and Experience.
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Memories of My Melancholy WhoresHe wants to experience "wild love with an adolescent virgin."
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Melancholy Boulevarda poem that came to mind one day while sitting on my porch
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The Human Experience Through William Blake's "The Divine Image" and John Keats's "Ode on Melancholy"Literature of the Romantic period emphasized the reality of humanity. Although life is full of pain and death, it is the experience of life that makes it the beautiful thing that it is.
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Rich Mullins: A Melancholy Musical GeniusA short biography and review of the Contemporary Christian Artist Rich Mullins
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The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore; A Book ReviewMoore is a master of the sick twist, laugh-til-ya-cry brand of fiction. Lust Lizard has a proliferation of naughty words and even naughtier situations, making it a must-own book. -
Living with Christ and the Black DogNearly all people experience some sort of depression during life. Many Christians get depressed and some suffer from depression. It doesn't mean there's a lack of faith involved. -
American Gothic: The Infinite MelancholiaA discussion of about the melancholy nature of American Gothic literature
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Dragonelf and Friends (and Swords!): a Fantasy-Romance Saga, Part 5"Part 5: The Bridge of Melancholy Grompers" ...The dirt beneath their feet grew moister with every step. Soon they were trudging through mud, pushing through a warm, thick fog, inhaling nothing but the Grompers' rotten fish stench...
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Why Did I Choose Being an Atheist?An Atheist is a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings. This is my Religion story and how I went from Christian to Atheist then to many other religions.
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Tim Burton Biography: From His Early Career to His Rise to Hollywood Fame as an A-list DirectorAside from his filmmaking credits, he wrote and illustrated the poetry book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories in 1997. He also published the compilation of his drawings entitled The Art of Tim Burton in 2009.
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Don't Tell the PeacockEntitlement has become a bad word. Our sense of entitlement has gone askew. Are we entitled to a moment of melancholy? Perhaps, but only a moment, please. -
Top Ten Family Vacation WoesDespite the ecstacy which can usually be found on beach getaways, my family always finds a way to turn what should in theory be gleeful into a blissful parade of melancholy. Following are the top ten worst things about family vacations.
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Depression in HorsesWhile clearly a horse does not think and reason the way a human does, they do have feelings. And those feelings can be hurt. "Breaking" a horse is an old idiom that has no place in today's horse training world. -
Poetry Analysis: The Raven, by Edgar Allan PoeThe Raven is one of the finest pieces of melancholy poetry ever written. In this article, I will analyze and breakdown the philosophy of Poe's masterpiece, and, with a little help from Poe himself, gain an insight into his writing. -
St. Patrick's Day PrescriptionWash away the melancholy with this simple st. paddy's remedy
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There Goes Christmas. Here Comes Valentine's DayValentine's Day vs. Christmas: both occasions talk of love, yet also spread melancholy.
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SADNESS and GENDER DOMINATIONMoon perceives matrimony as an empty world, akin to feelings experienced by Sue, a character in Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy's last novel, which focused on the themes of sex and marriage. It is also a melancholy and an unhappiness world for her.
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A Little Bit of SympathyMoving on with life and the bits of music that helps me along the way. Not getting stuck in melancholy and instead looking forward to the future.
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Corinne Bailey Rae Returns with The Sea: A Beautifully Melancholy Collection of SongsCorinne Bailey Rae launched to stardom with her debut release in 2006, but her husband's death in 2008 brought a sudden halt to that rocket ride. She's back now with a beautiful set of songs full of emotion.
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Lust, Caution Movie Review: Sex and War Time PoliticsAng Lee's Lust, Caution takes a melancholy account of wartime espionage poignantly depicting the turbulence of politics at the Japanese-controlled Shanghai during the Second World War.
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L'Illusionniste Film ReviewThe Illusionist (2010), an animated film by Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville), is a melancholy mood piece set in glorious Edinburgh that follows an aging magician and a tag-along girl.
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Around Town (San Francisco) in Recent Independent MoviesDiscussion of locations and characters' travails (not least prejudices) in five recent independent movies shot in whole or most parts in San Francisco (from north to south). -
You Want Some Cheese with that Whine?When you're unemployed, what the rest think of as a 3-day weekend is just another 3 days to you. Yet rather than fan the embers of melancholy, I extinguish that whine with some cheese...as in a really CHEESY movie. And the grand fromage?? Cinema de ELVIS! -
A Dark Shakespearean Sonnet: Black RoseA dark Shakespearean sonnet revealing a melancholy mood. Mostly in iambic pentameter, keeping in mind Shakespeare himself sometimes used two stressed syllables or trochaic pentameter. -
Continuummelancholy, just a bit; remembering why it's ok.
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MelancholyA poem for fall -
Long Lasting Depression Relief with BorageLearn why holistic or alternative medicine remedies for depression or melancholy use Borage for lasting relief from this condition and for other treatments. -
Winter's MelancholySharing winter through haiku.
