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It has been 0 days since our last Romanticism incident

new fun ask idea: sort the romantics into folks who say "hehe" and folks that say "bruh"

wordsworth: thinks both of them are a degradation of the good nature of language. for this, de quincey, a hehe, thinks he’s pedantic. he is right.

*bonus: dorothy wordsworth: on the inside hehes, on the outside she looks deeply unimpressed

coleridge: bruh

p. shelley: bruh

mary shelley: hehe

john keats: keats says ‘lmao’ to express anguish. dwells into hehe,

byron: bruh and hehe, his name isn’t a bi pun for nothing. his early poetry was hehe, evolved into bruh

blake: hehe, the chimney sweep is proof enough of this

polidori: m’lady, le sigh, i loled

claire clairmont: began as a hehe, went into ‘why are we here in this world? to suffer? every day i read emails’

leigh hunt: B R U H

tl peacock: (exasperated) BRUH

might do more if i think about them.

lesamis

made a uquiz so you can all find out which fun anecdote about a romantic writer you are

#important #i got john keats defending a kitten #a delight!

lets-throw-bacchanal

All the cute nicknames Victor Frankenstein called his son throughout the book:

catastrophe

miserable monster

demoniacal corpse to which I have so miserably given life

an ugly mummy

a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived,

the filthy daemon to whom I have given life

no human

the wretch whom I had created

sight tremendous and abhorred

unearthly ugly being

too horrible for human eyes

miserable head

vile insect

abhorred monster

wretched devil

you, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world

too horrible for human eyes to behold

the filthy mass that moved and talked

wretch whom I dreaded

villain

monster of my creation

fiend

figure most hideous and abhorred

+ bonus - all the cute ways captain Robert Walton described Victor’s son on 1 page:

a form which I cannot find words to describe

never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness

tremendous being

scary and unearthly in his ugliness

Tag yourself I’m “the filthy mass that moved and talked”

notmanthelessbutnaturemore

OH MY GOD William Blake did a thing in response to Byron’s Cain AHHHHHHH

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

#william blake #lord byron

skluug

oh yeah? well *i* met a traveller from an antique land who says that’s total bullshit

oblivion-soave

Life of William Blake (1880), Volume 1, Songs of Innocence - The Lamb.

#william blake

notmanthelessbutnaturemore

#lord byron

marypsue

I dreamed that there was a Broadway musical made of Frankenstein, which was wildly popular and a huge success. Early in the first act, Victor had a song called ‘Wonderful!’ which was sort of a fast-forward of ‘I’m engaged to this wonderful girl, I’m attending this wonderful school, everything’s great, I’m going to create life’. It got a minor-key reprise in the second act, after the creature had killed Elizabeth and Victor was resolving to destroy him once and for all.

The reprise started out being all about worm facts and how wonderful worms were, and ended with Victor singing about how wonderful it was that they helped the process of decay by feasting on his fiancée, and how wonderful it would be when they devoured his misbegotten creation.

Everybody on this site was like ‘I know the reprise is supposed to show the rock bottom of Victor’s mental and emotional breakdown and all but…worms really are wonderful and I love this song’.