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Victorian poetry
Sep. 15th, 2011 07:49 amWhy did I choose a subject area where we spend half our time reading about suicidal blithering idiots?
Be it Mariana or the Charge of the Light Brigade, they're all terribly depressing.
It's entirely possible to write poems about being alive and not miserable, but you wouldn't know it from this lot.
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... I strongly suspect I prefer the Renaissance. Or the Romantics, from the Revolution and Reaction unit last year.
On the plus side, it's not modernism.
Be it Mariana or the Charge of the Light Brigade, they're all terribly depressing.
It's entirely possible to write poems about being alive and not miserable, but you wouldn't know it from this lot.
( Read more... )
... I strongly suspect I prefer the Renaissance. Or the Romantics, from the Revolution and Reaction unit last year.
On the plus side, it's not modernism.