Yum Yum Journal

After reading Jerkyll & Hyde again I grew a greater appreciation for his work.  I am glad we spent more time on this and studied it deeper.

I was motiviated again to include this as a topic for one of my papers.    What he was going through at the time, what was happening in society & culturally then, and what his motivations were.

Very interesting. 

Tennyson's "Lady" is beautiful.  Her love, her sacrifice, her burden.  

"Lying, robed in snowy white
That loosely flew to the left and right-
The leaves upon her falling light-
Through the noises of the night
      She floated down to Camelot"

My favorite passage in the poem.  My kind of poetry. 

Was Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover" the first to examine abnormal pyschology?  Interesting that the name is derived from a possible skin or nuerological problem.

"But a Pebble of the brook,
Warbled out these metres meet"

Is the pebble imposing itself on the brook or towing the party line?

This is the first time I've read this.  Emily St. Aubert's account of her approach to Montoni's castle reveals every ray of light, every shadow against the sky, and eveil feeling culminating as she enters the castle..."ever awake" to her own circumstance.

In the "Castle of Otranto" Horace tried blending ancient and romantic stylings, which ultimately fed eighteenth century novels.

Was he the firsr, or were there some before him?