Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
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."
A stanza from the Donne:
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Study me then, you who shall lovers be
At the next world, that is, at the next spring ;
For I am every dead thing,
In whom Love wrought new alchemy.
For his art did express
A quintessence even from nothingness,
From dull privations, and lean emptiness ;
He ruin'd me, and I am re-begot
Of absence, darkness, death—things which are not.
Heh. Jen's going to arrive from her flight, check into the board and be very pissed she wasn't around for this conversation.
Hec, I have an anthology of poetry also called Acquainted with the Night that might qualify as Gothy.
What else is in that, sj?
Just reading the setup for Lucia di Lammermoor sounds goth as all get out:
The story concerns a feud between two families, the Ashtons and the Ravenswoods. When the opera begins, the Ashtons are in the ascendancy and have taken possession of Ravenswood Castle, the ancestral home of their rivals. Edgardo (Sir Edgar), Master of Ravenswood and last surviving member of his family, has been forced to live in a lonely tower by the sea, known as the Wolf's Crag.
Oooh, and it ends with a suicide in a graveyard.
What else is in that, sj?
I just got in, let me go check.
How could I forget Anna Akhmatova:
last toast
here’s to the ruin of this house to the villainies we do to our coupled severance here’s to you
to the lies lips issue forth to the cold weather of your eyes to the world’s being dumb and coarse to the god who let us die
How could I forget Anna Akhmatova:
Russians know how to bring the bleak.
There's about a hundred poems in here, so I'm not going to list it all. Some examples are, "One Night" by Umberto Saba, "Night of Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud, "Ballad of One Doomed to Die" by Frederico Garcia Lorca, and "The Cross of Snow" by Longfellow.
Russians know how to bring the bleak.
I do think she is bleak more than goth. But she has some great dark love poems. None of which I can find online.
Rimbaud! Of course!
Another by Anna:
Wild honey has the scent of freedom, dust--of a ray of sun, a girl's mouth--of a violet, and gold--has no perfume.Watery--the mignonette, and like an apple--love, but we have found out forever that blood smells only of blood.