How could I forget Anna Akhmatova:
Russians know how to bring the bleak.
Xander: Hey, Red. What you got in the basket, little girl? Buffy: Weapons.
Xander/Buffy ,'Help'
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 10:27:02 am PDT #6500 of 28378
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
sj - Jun 20, 2008 10:27:16 am PDT #6501 of 28378
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
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.
Sue - Jun 20, 2008 10:31:46 am PDT #6502 of 28378
hip deep in pie
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.
Sue - Jun 20, 2008 10:33:48 am PDT #6503 of 28378
hip deep in pie
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.
Steph L. - Jun 20, 2008 10:45:33 am PDT #6504 of 28378
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Just reading the setup for Lucia di Lammermoor sounds goth as all get out:
's why I recommended it. I might not *be* goth, but I know it when I see it.
Toddson - Jun 20, 2008 11:01:44 am PDT #6505 of 28378
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
In this vein (so to speak) I grabbed some vampire books at a big book sale ($2 for hardcovers! .50 for paperbacks!) - The Vampire of New York by ... someone-or-other Hunt and the first of the Danny Valentine books. Also one called The Vampire and the Cowboy (seriously - how could I resist?).
Atropa - Jun 20, 2008 11:02:13 am PDT #6506 of 28378
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Now I want to go home, sit in a shady spot in my back yard, and re-read vampire books.
Toddson - Jun 20, 2008 11:02:32 am PDT #6507 of 28378
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Also - isn't there an opera of The Fall of the House of Usher?
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 12:10:28 pm PDT #6508 of 28378
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Whoa, wacky synchronicity. Lucia di Lammermoore just opened in San Francisco yesterday.
I do seem to recall a House of Usher Opera, now that you mention it, Todd.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 20, 2008 12:17:00 pm PDT #6509 of 28378
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I might be holding out for a Suspiria opera.
Well, Argento recreated the opening murder from Suspiria for a fashion show, so I'd guess an opera wouldn't be out of the question (and his movie Opera partly came about because he was hired to direct an opera - can't remember which - but there were so many protests over his involvement that he bowed out, Italians taking their opera very seriously and all).
For Poe, I say The Conquerer Worm is the gothiest.