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Writer's pictureKayla Sylvester

Melancholy: The "Happiness of Being Sad"

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2. Personal Experience with Lebensmüde (you do such risky things that you clearly don't care for your own safety, or that you've entered a deep, physical state of not-caring; German)


Currently, I am going through feelings of Lebensmüde. I am constantly not-caring about anything because I am exhausted all the time. Juggling school, rehearsal, and doing two plays back to back is a lot for me to handle. I never do work because I am so burnt out and I simply don't care anymore.


3. “There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.” shakeyp much ado about nothing use this to caption a photo!!


4. "She dwells with Beauty—Beauty that must die;" (Ode on Melancholy by John Keats)


This is my favorite line form this poem. It is very interesting to me. She "dwells" with beauty. To dwell is to live in or be at a specific place, or it could mean to think, speak, or write at length about (a particular subject, especially one that is a source of unhappiness, anxiety, or dissatisfaction). So, by saying she dwells with beauty could mean that she thinks about it constantly or she lives in this place of beauty. Then, this follows with saying that it must die. Maybe, this is saying that beauty is not forever and we can't live in this fake world forever.

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