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In response to someone's question on TikTok about books with Gale-like characters, Tim Downie (who everyone should go follow -- his recent videos talking about folklore and literature have been delightful!) recommended Yates and Auden... so now I am thinking of Auden's 'The More Loving One' in the context of Gale's relationship to Mystra and Feeling Things.
"If equal affection cannot be, / let the more loving one be me" feels very Gale-coded to me, and I think the final two stanzas could really align with his slow realization over the course of the game and his romance that he doesn't actually need Mystra in the way he thought he did -- that his life and self can still hold meaning outside of his devotion to her.
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep#tim downie#mystra#w. h. auden#poetry#this voice cast is honestly such a blessing
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could you do a web about falling out of love with someone and hurting because you miss the "old them"?
Ah! I hope this does it justice! ;^^
this would be so much easier if i still knew you.
First Love, Jennifer Franklin | Armed Cavalier, Richie Hofmann | Self Portrait in Dark Interior, Curtis Bauer | Stuff I probably did and didn't, Stephanie Gray | Never Love an Anchor, The Crane Wives | Waiting, Caitlyn Siehl | Russian Ending, Jerry Williams | The More Loving One, W. H. Auden | _sayorikinnie on pinterest | The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter, Erza Pound | @/inanotheruniverse on tumblr | @/dazzlingtiredeyes on tumblr | Wrong Side of a Fistfight, Ashe Vernon | Ode to People Who Hate Me, Carmen Giménez | If My Body Could Speak; What I couldn’t explain via text, Blythe Baird | @/chloeinletters on tumblr | Romance or The End, Elaine Kahn | Presumably Dead Arm, Sidney Gish
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#poetry#parallels#prose#literature#web weaving poetry#webweaving#web weave#compilation#on love#lost love#on heartbreak#༺✿ web weaves by basil ✿༻#jennifer franklin#richie hofmann#curtis bauer#stephanie gray#caitlyn siehl#jerry williams#w. h. auden#erza pound#ashe vernon#carmen giménez#blythe baird#elaine kahn#requests
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Love is a surgeon
Love can cut into your flesh like a scalpel
Love can operate upon your heart.
— Gunnar Ekelöf, Selected Poems, transl by W. H. Auden & Leif Sjöberg, (1971)
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W. H. Auden, Selected Poems; from ‘Dear, though the night is gone’
#w. h. auden#selected poems#dear though the night is gone#poetry#excerpts#dreams and sleep#hauntings
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"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1560);
"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" (poem), William Carlos Williams (1960);
"Musée des Beaux Arts" (poem), W. H. Auden (1938);
“ICARUS”, STARSET;
“Icarus”, Bastille;
“Fun”, Coldplay;
“Sunlight”, Hozier;
“I, Carrion (Icarian)”, Hozier;
Icarus's passing is seen by Bruegel, Williams, and Auden as a minor incident in the grand scheme of existence. Williams' "quite unnoticed" serves as a reminder/memento mori of our own mortality. Dying is not such a remarkable occurrence, life moves on without us when we pass away. And sometimes all that can be heard at the end of a life is a just a brief splash sound.
"Icarus" by STARSET is about a self-destructive character. They interpret the story of Icarus as an allegory for being too self-absorbed at the expense of others. The lines "you'll never be good enough" and "you always fly right up until it burns" as well as "you'll never go through them" all allude to a tendency to constantly pursue the same route over and over no matter what.
Bastille's "Icarus" retells Icarus's story alongside a modern tragedy. The opening scene of "Icarus" shows a person preparing to "dig their own grave" and "drink themselves to death." The song continues by drawing a comparison between death and Icarus, who is "flying too close to the sun/ And Icarus's life, it has only just begun". With these lines, Bastille adapt the Icarus myth to a more contemporary setting, creating associations with tragedy and the carelessness of wasted youth.
In the song "Fun" by Coldplay, the singer likens himself to Icarus and confesses, "I know it's over before she says/ Now someone else has taken your place/ I know it's over, Icarus says to the sun". The Icarus myth is reframed by Coldplay as a tragic love story between a young person and the sun.
Hozier's song "Sunlight" describes how he is ready to die (metaphorically) in order to be with the person he views as his sunlight. While Hozier's main concern in "I, Carrion" is his lover's support, even in the face of death. The narrator's deep yearning for their lover's companionship leads them to embrace death willingly. Just as Icarus dismissed Daedalus' warning about flying too high, Hozier shows a similar disregard, blinded by love, prioritizing his over to the point of placing them over his own life.
#pieter bruegel the elder#william carlos williams#w. h. auden#landascape with the fall of icarus#Icarus#Icarus fall#greek mythology#STARSET#Bastille#Coldplay#Hozier#web weaving#this has been bugging my mind for over a week now
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
~ W. H. Auden
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From Refugee Blues by W.H. Auden.
Auden wrote this poem for Germans who had to leave their country during World War 2. The sad thing is the world hasn't changed at all.
#palestine#i stand with palestine#wh auden#w. h. auden#poetry#refugees#gaza#free palestine#poems on tumblr
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S'il pouvait oublier la puérile ambition de vieillir
Et les institutions où il apprit la propreté et le mensonge,
Il dirait cette Vérité pour laquelle il se sent trop jeune
/ W. H. Auden
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W. H. Auden, February 21, 1907 – September 29, 1973.
With T. S. and Valerie Eliot in 1960.
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W. H. Auden, from September 1, 1939.
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... çünkü insan yemeğe ve derin uykuya ihtiyaç duyduğu kadar, kaçmaya da ihtiyaç duyar.
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books i acquired today from a bookstore called crescent city books in new orleans
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Straight through me shone the Sun and the Moon
And only Your shadow gave my soul
Substance and Presence.
— Gunnar Ekelöf, Selected Poems, transl by W. H. Auden & Leif Sjöberg, (1971)
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"Funeral Blues" by W.H. Auden (read by Tom Hiddleston) - Poetry for Every Day of the Year
You can watch Poetry for Every Day of the Year on Youtube from 6 April.
#tom hiddleston#poetry#poem#funeral blues#w. h. auden#Poetry for Every Day of the Year#nationaltheatre#Video#Youtube
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Funeral Blues (Stop All The Clocks)
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message 'He is Dead'.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
W.H. Auden
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"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden
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