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a gothic writing prompt

In honor of this season, and my favorite holiday, Halloween, this week we explore the world of Gothic poetry. (Oh, and to anyone reading us from down under, just play along). Gothicism as an artistic movement is largely part of the Romantic era. The Romantics turned away from the science and realism of the Enlightenment and focused on more subjective areas of experience. Gothic art was toward the fantastic end of what they explored, but spooky. On the non-spooky but still fantastic end was Surrealism.

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1. abigail weatherspoon - December 7, 2008

Thank you, Dana, for your comment. I look forward to the continued reading of your material.

AW

2. abigail weatherspoon - December 7, 2008

Response to Mystic by Abigail (a poem collaborative)

A mirage of mirrored souls
is a mirror-playing trick on ghosts
a trap door in the psyche
were we not going crazy separately
we’d be saner collectively —

but that would be impossible, wouldn’t it?

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