Sadness

For this journal entry I'll be discussing Cathy Song's poem, "Beauty and Sadness," based off the life and pictures of Kitagawa Utamaro, at his time a master in the genre he illustrated in. The poem describes the majesty of the women that Kitagawa captured in his illustrations. It describes with a certain appreciation how he captured their elegance, and captured many of them with dignity. The poem also tells of the complexity of the women he illustrated, in a way like the Mona Lisa. The poem…

Literature nominee. As well as in the novel The Alchemist written by Paulo Coelho, the winner of many international literary awards including the Crystal Award, awarded by the World Economic Forum. It is also evident in the novel The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by the New York Times Bestseller, Aimee Bender. Humanity has many necessities for survival, but family is one of the biggest and most…

Keats' Ode to Melancholy focuses on the lyric moment of beautiful sadness. Keats describes finding beauty in the sad and temporary. Keats understands that in order to enjoy positive feelings one must also experience the beauty in the negative as well. Through the poem, Keats balances surrendering to depression with embracing the human range of feeling as a combination of fleeting emotions. In the first stanza, Keats describes multiple poisons to stay away from. He is both reflecting on their…

Brooks’ Article causes Political Comments David Brooks’ “Dignity and Sadness in the Working Class” clarifies a portion of the unfairness that the working class is subjected to in today’s society. David Brooks’ essay was published on September 20th, 2016 in The New York Times in the Opinion section. The New York Times is a highly-respected newspaper site which delivers “high quality news and information” (“Standards and Ethics”). Brooks starts off his essay by including an anecdote about a…

Pursuit of Sadness In our society today, people tend to find happiness within themselves, others and their community. But everything in the world comes with a price tag. Like the old saying goes, you pay what you get and happiness is no exception. So what one must give up to obtain happiness? What moral decisions do we have to overcome to acquire well-being? Ursula LeGuin, author of “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” described the city as a utopia filled with joy. But in order for the…

principles, these levels of analysis were integral in my investigative journey on sadness. When is sadness functional or dysfunctional? Under which conditions does sadness facilitate adaptive or maladaptive behaviors. Through this inquiry, it is my hope to disentangle the misconceptions and stigmas associated with…

empirical measures of intensity and time-frame serve as other sources of measurement. To investigate an emotion one ought to include these concepts, components, and levels of analysis. I now seek to investigate sadness. In particular, when is sadness functional or dysfunctional? Under which conditions does sadness promote adaptive or maladaptive behaviors. Thus, I hope to disentangle the misconceptions and stigmas often associated with…

happiness and sadness. Sadness is an emotion that everyone hates to experience. What if we take that emotion away? How would this affect a person? Would we be able to function? I believe that by taking sadness away it would be impossible for me to experience being human. Every emotion, in my opinion, works together to keep you emotionally stable. By taking an obviously bad emotion away, how would I be able to experience happiness? I believe that to experience happiness’s I have to feel…

(Roth 198). Sadness was always blamed for the “bad days” Riley experienced emotionally. It was always depicted Sadness was equivalent to bad or unwanted. It was not until the later part of the movie when Sadness’ true importance was discovered. After discovering sadness was responsible for a core memory Joy was then aware without sadness Joy was unable to truly make Riley happy. It was then when Sadness’ trust was established. Once returning back to headquarters, with the control of Sadness,…

feelings in her regular day to day existence. The feeling Joy dominates Riley's feeling to the point that they are faced with a dilemma where Riley needs to move from the place where she grew up in Minnesota to San Francisco. In the film, Joy and Sadness get lost from the tower and anger, disgust, and fear are left in charge of Riley's feelings. In the film, Joy takes control and dominates the greater part of Riley's youth, which is the reason we, for the most part, relate our…