“If The Moon Smiled, She Would Resemble You. You Leave The Same Impression Of Something Beautiful,

GOTHIC POETRY RECOMMENDATIONS

Edgar Allan Poe : The Complete Collection of Poems

Emily Brontë : The Complete Collection of Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : “Haunted Houses”

Dana Levin :  “ Styx”

William Blake : “ The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”  /  “A Divine Image”

Margaret Atwood :  “Mushrooms” 

Jorge Luis Borges : “Two English Poems”

Frank Bidart :  “The Ghost”

María Negroni :  “Rosamundi“

Anne Carson :  “The Glass Essay”

Emily Dickinson : The Complete Collection of Poems

Jericho Brown :  “Dear Dr. Frankenstein”

Sylvia Plath : “ Lady Lazarus” /  “Ariel” /  “Fever 103°”

Hughes Mearns :  “Antigonish [I met a man who wasn’t there]”

Robert Lowell : “Florence”

Gregory Orr :  “Gathering the Bones Together“

Paisley Rekdal :  “Bats”

“Dionysus is a god who takes human form, a powerful male who looks soft and feminine, a native of Thebes who dresses as a foreigner. His parentage is mixed between divine and human; he is and is not a citizen of Thebes; his power has both feminine and masculine aspects. He does not merely cross boundaries, he blurs and confounds them, makes nonsense of the lines between Greek and foreign, between female and male, between powerful and weak, between savage and civilized. He is the god of both tragedy and comedy, and in his presence the distinction between them falls away, as both comedy and tragedy…”

— Paul Woodruff, The Bacchae (Translated and Annotated) 

from a 19th century bookplate..

young and beautiful by lana del rey plays and I'm immediately seized by the desire to dress in a glorious suit and stare out the window longingly at my unrequited love who lives across the bay. who will never be with me.

William Wordsworth

Julius Grimm (1842-1906)

In 1888, Julius Grimm used photography and telescope observation to create this intricately detailed and precise oil painting of the moon. In the night sky, the moon is always lit from behind you – so the shadows of the craters can never appear as they do in this painting. Grimm instead regarded the moon as if it were a still life, bathed in golden light emanating from the left side of the painting. 

“The picture should only be hung or positioned, that the light falls onto the picture from the side where the arrow is positioned, because otherwise, in the case of incorrect lighting, the effect could be completely lost.”

Why limit yourself between choosing a pretty feminine aesthetic or a dark one? If Persephone can be the Goddess of Spring and the Queen of the Underworld at the same time so can you.

Christopher Mullins

mbti types as oddly specific books i was forced to read

infj: animal farm, the alchemist

infp: frakenstein, metamorphosis, catcher in the rye

intj: crime and punishment, dune

intp: 1984, slaughter-house 5

entj: macbeth

entp: don quixote, catch-22

enfj: les misérables

enfp: alice in wonderland

isfj: anne of green gables

istj: sherlock holmes

isfp: the night circus, where the red fern grows, the hobbit

estj: the art of war, the fountainhead

estp: great gatsby

esfj: pride and prejudice, little women

esfp: the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

istp: the girl with the dragon tattoo, fight club

New Renaissance by KOTY2