In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

All the rest of the days in the White House would be shadowed by the tragic loss, even though the President tried harder than ever to make his little dry jokes and to tease the people around him.

The whole purpose of Man's Hope is to portray the tragic dialectic between means and ends inherent in all organized political violence -- and even when such violence is a necessary and legitimate self-defense of liberty, justice and human dignity.

However, " his plays continued to be applauded even after those of Aeschylus and Sophocles had come to seem remote and irrelevant ", they became school classics in the Hellenistic period ( as mentioned in the introduction ) and, due to Seneca's adaptation of his work for Roman audiences, " it was Euripides, not Aeschylus or Sophocles, whose tragic muse presided over the rebirth of tragedy in Renaissance Europe.

Perhaps in our generation the counsel of our Talmudic sages may seem superfluous, for today the story of our enslavement in Egypt is kept alive not only by ritualistic symbolism, but even more so by tragic realism.

Nietzsche in " What I Owe to the Ancients " in his Twilight of the Idols wrote: " The psychology of the orgiastic as an overflowing feeling of life and strength, where even pain still has the effect of a stimulus, gave me the key to the concept of tragic feeling, which had been misunderstood both by Aristotle and even more by modern pessimists.

Saying Yes to life even in its strangest and most painful episodes, the will to life rejoicing in its own inexhaustible vitality even as it witnesses the destruction of its greatest heroes — that is what I called Dionysian, that is what I guessed to be the bridge to the psychology of the tragic poet.

Not in order to be liberated from terror and pity, not in order to purge oneself of a dangerous affect by its vehement discharge — which is how Aristotle understood tragedy — but in order to celebrate oneself the eternal joy of becoming, beyond all terror and pity — that tragic joy included even joy in destruction.

They can also indicate the characters ' circumstances ( whether they should appear rich or poor ) or even whether they should be seen as comic or tragic personae.

It features prominent string arrangements and even a massed choir at its tragic climax.

But the tragic is still possible even if pure tragedy is not.

After running out of space, the Doozers finally decide to move on to a new area because the Fraggles won't eat their constructions, and there is even a tragic scene with a mother explaining to her daughter that Doozers must build or they will die, and so they must find a new place to live where they can build and hopefully find Fraggles who will eat their constructions.

Unlike Classic tragic heroes, the deaths of male protagonists, such as in Nikolai Gogol ’ s Nevskii Prospekt and Dmitry Grigorovich ’ s Svistul ’ kin, did not bring about great celebrations in their honor, or even faint remembrances amongst their comrades.

Morgan le Fay, a villain from the movie, is probably a high ranking Earth spirit ( or a being from another dimension, but that is less likely because her tragic love story with a human must have happened on Earth ) who demonstrates great strength fighting Belldandy and Urd, even though her powers are less potent than the ones of goddesses of their level.

In this context the poem dedicated to ‘ a sick lady ’ gained yet another deeply tragic and personal meaning, even though the translations were started long before her illness was even known.

* Euripides: One of the great tragic poets, he is the butt of jokes in many of Aristophanes plays and he even appears as a character in three of them ( The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs ).

Obeying the rules, he is even incapable of recognizing the tragic situation when his son has been shot to death-a harsh critique of passiveness towards authority.

Perhaps in our generation the counsel of our Talmudic sages may seem superfluous, for today the story of our enslavement in Egypt is kept alive not only by ritualistic symbolism, but even more so by tragic realism.

Mao's wife, on the other hand, was to be " not just a shrieking coloratura, but also someone who in the opera's final act can reveal her private fantasies, her erotic desires, and even a certain tragic awareness.

ALTs, even if US citizens, might be required to read tragic stories about the atomic bombings to their classes which omit any mention of World War II or the Japanese government's conduct during the war.

* Euripides: A controversial tragic poet, he is lampooned in all Aristophanes ' plays and he even features as a character in three of them ( The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs ).

* Quentin Compson III ( 1890 – 1910 ), the oldest Compson child: passionate and neurotic, he commits suicide as the tragic culmination of the damaging influence of his father's nihilistic philosophy and his inability to cope with his sister's sexual promiscuity.

After many years and many interruptions he was able to finish the canopy fresco, and slightly less than half the frieze, beginning with the Liberty group opposite the East door, and ending with William Penn, all but one leg, when a tragic accident ended his career.

In Rossini's time the tragic ending was so distasteful to the public of Rome that it was necessary to invent a happy conclusion to Otello.

One of the tales, " Judar and His Brethren ", departs from the happy endings of previous variants and reworks the plot to give it a tragic ending instead, with the younger brother being poisoned by his elder brothers.

Hugh Luke argues that " By ending her story with the picture of the Earth's solitary inhabitant, she has brought nearly the whole weight of the novel to bear upon the idea that the condition of the individual being is essentially isolated and therefore ultimately tragic " ( xvii ).

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this tragic ending was much criticised and alternative versions were written and performed, in which the leading characters survived and Edgar and Cordelia were married ( despite the fact that Cordelia was already betrothed to the King of France ).

Edmund Kean played King Lear with its tragic ending in 1823, but failed and reverted to Tate's crowd-pleaser after only three performances.

For a work to be tragic, it need not have a tragic ending.

The three are mired in a love triangle in the last dozen or so pages, resulting in a tragic ending.

Next came The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, but the serious plot and tragic ending resulted in the worst box office receipts of any of their films.

One of the tales, " Judar and His Brethren ", departs from the happy endings of previous variants and reworks the plot to give it a tragic ending instead, with the younger brother being poisoned by his elder brothers.

The story is famously retold by Shakespeare, but given a tragic ending.

Cephalus is the son of Hermes and Herse who suffers a tragic ending to his happy marriage with Procris.

Most often seen in dramatic literature, the term can variously describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or, often, a serious play with a happy ending.

The recounting of Jesus ' human and godlike qualities, combined with Biff's earthy debauchery, leads to its all-too-familiar tragic ending, but humorously explains many things: the origins of judo ( a pun that is definitely intended ), why Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas, and how rabbits became associated with Easter.

At the end of the 1980s the ground held three successive FA Cup semis ending with the tragic events that changed the nature of football grounds throughout the country.

However, there is a tragic ending to the novel: the accidental death of Lilia's child, which spurs a series of drastic changes within the story.

She blamed the media for the tragic ending of her pregnancy.

Each of the ten normally selectable characters have two endings, usually one ending which ends well and another tragic ending.

Kean was the first to restore the tragic ending to Shakespeare's King Lear, which had been replaced on stage since 1681 by Nahum Tate's happy ending adaptation The History of King Lear.

This may take a tragic form-' I saw no prospect of its ending except with death-the death of one of three people ' - or alternately a comic one: ' A man at the funeral of a friend's wife, with whom he has been carrying on an affair, breaks into tears and finally becomes hysterical, while the husband remains impassive.

The most compelling characters are also the most tragic, as Caddy and Quentin cannot survive within the context of the society whose values they reject as best they can, and it is left to Jason, unappealing but competently pragmatic, to maintain the status quo, as illustrated by the novel's ending.