It certainly gets my vote.
C'mon now, I'm depending on you to round out the top ten.
Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.
Cordelia ,'Dirty Girls'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 9:01:55 am PDT #6452 of 28374
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 9:03:17 am PDT #6453 of 28374
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
If Jen weren't traveling today, I'd get her choice for Gothiest Shakespearean Sonnet.
Also, Jilli, since you're a trained singer, what would be the Gothiest Opera?
Macbeth? Bluebeard?
juliana - Jun 20, 2008 9:07:36 am PDT #6454 of 28374
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Um. Not Jen, but Sonnet 73's pretty damn gothy:
That time of year thou mayst in me behold,
When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou seest the twilight of such day,
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self that seals up all in rest.
In me thou seest the glowing of such fire,
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the deathbed, whereon it must expire,
Consumed by that which it was nourished by.
This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well, which thou must leave ere long.
Fred Pete - Jun 20, 2008 9:09:38 am PDT #6455 of 28374
Ann, that's a ferret.
I know little more about Goth than from reading Gothic Charm School, but wouldn't Edgar Allan Poe land a spot or two on the list?
Sue - Jun 20, 2008 9:12:29 am PDT #6456 of 28374
hip deep in pie
Here's a fragment of a poem by Keats:
This Living Hand
This living hand, now warm and capable
Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold
And in the icy silence of the tomb,
So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights
That thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry of blood
So in my veins red life might stream again,
And thou be conscience-calmed—see here it is—
I hold it towards you.
Connie Neil - Jun 20, 2008 9:15:34 am PDT #6457 of 28374
brillig
OK, Keats had some issues.
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 9:18:38 am PDT #6458 of 28374
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Excellent call, Juliana.
but wouldn't Edgar Allan Poe land a spot or two on the list?
You'd think.
I don't know. "Lenore"? "Ulalume"? "The Raven"?
Sue - Jun 20, 2008 9:18:39 am PDT #6459 of 28374
hip deep in pie
Well, he was 24 and dying of tuberculosis.
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 9:20:06 am PDT #6460 of 28374
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Well, he was 24 and dying of tuberculosis.
Goth as fuck!
There's got to be some Blake and Yeats here. Also a book of poetry titled Flowers of Evil should be a well spring.
Atropa - Jun 20, 2008 9:22:58 am PDT #6461 of 28374
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
C'mon now, I'm depending on you to round out the top ten.
This is where I somewhat shamefacedly admit that I am notoriously weak with poetry. I just don't read much of it.
Also, Jilli, since you're a trained singer, what would be the Gothiest Opera?
Opera is the other thing I'm weak in. Off the top of my head: Don Giovanni, or Orfeo ed Euridice.