>Subject: Re: Artists In Extremis--Ya gotta suffer?
Dear Yiyan Wang:
So, can we say it is not the greatest
>of suffering that produces a great poet/writer but one's ability to observe
>and articulate that experience?
>
Yes. I agree
>Question 2 - do people/poets/writers usually connect suffering with
>melancholy? Is melancholy different from sorrow? if so, how?
>
It might just be semantics or just one's approximation of degree. When I
think of suffering I think of extremely painful emotional, physical or
mental experience of some duration--allowing that of course that it is
subjective. I know of people who have endured pain without complaint that I
couldn't comprehend living with. One may suffer as a result of a rejection,
loss of a loved one, illness, physical injury--longterm agony with no
relief in sight-- helplessness or anguish at another's plight. I would
connect suffering with sorrow if one were to define that as the more
painful, more serious, more longlasting condition.
Chris Hayden
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