Things I'm forced to read for Danish

[ink_splotch]

I am currently nursing the belief that all poets from the Romantic period (approx. 1800-1870) have been recreated as the people we mock on deleterius and fandom_wank.

Jesus Christ, what is WRONG with them? It's all Woe is me, she does not love me which moves on to Woe! She wants me, but we can't get married and then becomes Oh woe, we're married but she doesn't understand my PAIN! *cuts* *visits whores* .

And I'm not even going to touch their whole Platonic Ideal Relationship i.e. no seks for teh wimmen! theories. They're a bunch of thirteen year olds, sitting in their rooms with too much eyeliner, listening to Evanescence and Linkin Park and complaining about how NO ONE UNDERSTANDS and how they're close with the divine in this world and thus are CONFLICTED. BECAUSE THEY ARE SO DEEP, DAMMIT.

Oh *shut up*.

Comments

[shubassdk.livejournal.com]

Hee!! I absolutely agree!!

Who can we compare HC Andersen to?

[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I dunno. I kind of like him, or definitely his darker texts (The Shadow comes to mind). On the other hand, things like The Little Mermaid make me want to hurt someone (much in the same way Romeo and Juliet does. It's not romantic, it's pedofilia!)

[thewayout.livejournal.com]

HEH.

*giggles*

[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

Oh, you giggle, but you've never been subjected European writers, particularly poets, in this age. *headdesk*

[thewayout.livejournal.com]

Honey, my senior English class was all British lit. I've seen some of it.

I know EXACTLY what you're talking about. And don't think it's just European ones. Americans do it to.

[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

I stand corrected! Sorry about being so assumptuous

[thewayout.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's okay.

Usually, Americans have inferior education. THat's just a fact. ;)

[lattara.livejournal.com]

Jesus Fucking Christ. *SO* with you. Am reading Shelley in English, and I just want to kill him. Would you shut *up* about that stupid lark?

[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

They will not stop whining. Have you read Ewald? His moodswings!! Wah! Or Goethe? *stabbitydeath* Honest to god, you're a bunch of idiots. *whacks collective period over the head*

I wish we could go back to the Rationalists. I mean, sure, they can be a little coldhearted, a little two rational, but that over pointless whining any day.

[lattara.livejournal.com]

Jesus christ on a pogo stick. No, I haven't read Ewald, thank God, but I've read Goethe (luckily in one of his less annoying phases, though). Quite enough, thank you, although we're getting to that period in Danish soon. Blegh.

I have so much more sympathy for the rationalists, too. Gimme some *logic*, yeah?

[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

We've read excerpts from Goethe 'Werther Lidelse' or whatever and GAH! Most Annoying Lead since Romeo.

Oh, yay. Wonderful.

Exactly! And less of all of the 'flowers and MY PAIN IS SO PAINFUL, OMG!', please?

[lattara.livejournal.com]

I feel so sorry for you. Really, I do. My sincerest sympathíes.

Much less of that. Also much less of "Oh, my beautiful skylark, what may I compare thee to? The sound of vernal showers? A rose in the morning, spreading its smell without being aware of it? How about I compare you to JESUS FUCKING CHRIST; ELT THE GODDAMN SKYLARK ALONE! IT'S A FUCKING BIRD, NOT GOD'S REPRESENTATIVE, OKAY?"

[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

OMG, EXACTLY!! And their whole 'Nature is a women, our country is a man, bla bla bla, Denmark/Germany/France/-insertcountry- is much better than yours' thing does not add to the enjoyment. AT ALL.

[lattara.livejournal.com]

GRRRRRRR! *tears out hair*

[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

*deep sigh*