Sorrow (emotion)
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
[[Image:L'Absinthe (1876) - Edgar Degas.jpg|thumb|left|200px|L'Absinthe (1876) - Edgar Degas]
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Sorrow is an emotion, feeling, or sentiment of intense sadness, suggesting a degree of resignation.
Cult
Romanticism saw a cult of sorrow develop, reaching back to The Sorrows of Young Werther of 1774, and extending through the nineteenth century with contributions like Tennyson's In Memoriam - 'O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me/No casual mistress, but a wife' - up to W. B. Yeats in 1889, still 'of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming'.
Postponement
Julia Kristeva suggests that 'taming sorrow, not fleeing sadness at once but allowing it to settle for a while...is what one of the temporary and yet indispensable phases of analysis might be'.
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