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>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 ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%