/lit/ - Literature

>>14651040
He's pretty insightful, esp about left wing 'holiness spirals' and their inevitable conclusions. But some of his social views give me the heebie jeebies, ya know?

>>13616071

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJZrtbYrZBc

Poetry for this feel?

Oh my god, the moderator has basically said "maybe the real debate was the friends we made along the way??"

>>12773155

>A new study, commissioned by the Brontë Society and carried out by the University of York analyzed several manuscripts of Emily Brontë's poetry, mostly from her early adulthood, to determine the cause of splotches of discoloration and bled ink. This was spurred by a long-standing rumour regarding the manuscripts, first spread when the Society acquired them in the 1949, that these were tear stains. Though often used to emphasize the deeply personal nature of the work, feminist critics have argued that this narrative portrays Emily as a weak, unprofessional writer overcome with 'an idealized, Victorian vision of female feeling'.
>After a docent at the parsonage in Haworth received pointed criticism for telling the story while displaying the manuscripts, in an incident which sparked a minor social media firestorm, the Society agreed to stop making reference the 'tear stains' until they could be verified.
>Scientists from the University of York have now done so. Sampling the splotches using forensic techniques that have also been applied to solve criminal cold cases they have determined, based primarily on salt content, that the stains are likely human tears and were formed when the ink was still wet. Though short of DNA evidence, this is near conclusive proof the Emily Brontë did weep while writing some of her poems.
>This aligns with testimony from Parsonage servant Tabby Aykroyd that, after Emily's sisters left home, leaving her almost entirely alone, Emily frequently wept, often crying herself to sleep. Aykroyd also contended that, in 1843, Emily made the suicidal gesture of holding a kitchen knife to her throat and had to be restrained by Aykroyd and her elderly father.

>>12734413

>I am the only being whose doom
>No tongue would ask, no eye would mourn;
>I never caused a thought of gloom,
>A smile of joy, since I was born.

>In secret pleasure, secret tears,
>This changeful life has slipped away,
>As friendless after eighteen years,
>As lone as on my natal day.

>There have been times I cannot hide,
>There have been times when this was drear,
>When my sad soul forgot its pride
>And longed for one to love me here.

>But those were in the early glow
>Of feelings since subdued by care;
>And they have died so long ago,
>I hardly now believe they were.

>First melted off the hope of youth,
>Then fancy’s rainbow fast withdrew;
>And then experience told me truth
>In mortal bosoms never grew.

>’Twas grief enough to think mankind
>All hollow, servile, insincere;
>But worse to trust to my own mind
>And find the same corruption there

Why was she so lonely all her life, lads? I know it's a meme to say she was autistic, but that's dubious, IMO. Stevie Davies, a British academic, insists it was because Emily was a lesbian but was afraid to act on her desires, while others say she was schizoid and possibly asexual. Perhaps the simple isolation of Haworth was to blame?