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Melancholy See also Grief. Acheron river of woe in the underworld. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 5] lists causes, symptoms, and characteristics of melancholy. [Br. Lit.: Anatomy of Melancholy] beset by woes. [Br. Lit.: “Sad Fortunes of Amos Barton” in Walsh Modern, 45] humor effecting temperament of gloominess. [Medieval Physiology: Hall, 130] melancholy, bittersweet music born among American Negroes. [Am. Music: Scholes, 113] serious, moody, melancholic minister. [Br. Lit.: St. Ronan’s Well] driven to gloom by collapse of expectations. [Br. Lit.: Bleak House] oracle so awe-inspiring, consulters never smiled again. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 1103] amusingly gloomy, morose donkey. [Children’s Lit.: Winnie-the-Pooh] meditative poem of a melancholy mood. [Br. Lit.: Harvey, 266]
immigration center where many families were separated; “isle of tears.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 193] “lone lorn creetur” with melancholy disposition. [Br. Lit.: David Copperfield] black mood dominates his consciousness. [Brit. Lit.: Shakespeare Hamlet] flesh brings melancholy to those who eat it. [Animal Symbolism: Mercatante, 125] poem celebrating the pleasures of melancholy and solitude. [Br. Lit.: Milton Il Penseroso in Magill IV, 577] “can suck melancholy out of a song.” [Br. Lit.: As You Like It] forever weeping and bemoaning his fate. [Br. Lit.: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland] no joy here when Casey struck out. [Am. Sports Lit.: “Casey at the Bat” in Turlin, 642] composed, sang many melancholic songs in memory of deceased Eurydice. [Gk. Myth.: Orpheus and Eurydice, Magill I, 700–701] discomfited by his existence’s purposelessness, solitarily despairs. [Fr. Lit.: Nausea] hapless and helpless soldier; resigned to his fate. [Comics: Horn, 595–596] life’s gloominess. [O.T.: Psalms 23:4] child full of woe. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 309] tree symbolizes grief. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 178] |
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Through Pilar's final betrayal of Celia, and Celia's subsequent drowning, Dreaming in Cuban melancholically posits nostalgia as a product of entrance to the global world, and a better fate than never being part of the global marketplace. Fresh from his work documenting the civil rights movement and the Chicago Outlaws biker club, Lyon, a latter-day Bartleby, presides over the leather district's final rites, as he melancholically pictures hostile hard hats sealing the fate of these once-mighty giants of mercantile New York. A number of songs and images concern the art of conversation and its counterpart, silence, with portrayals of men and women as shy, tongue-tied with infatuation, or melancholically unhappy (79). |
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