Whereas the inherited tones were of adoration, painful unrequitedness, and romantic longing, his are of emotional turmoil, intellectual hesitancy, and irony. |
Nor is it obvious that unrequitedness resonates in Petrarchan lyric in quite the way it does in the literature of American conquest. |
Is it poetry's unrequitedness, its gleam of skin in a world of dressed texts? |
I suppose, that unless it changes, or I can get over that feeling of unrequitedness, of him being unreachable, it won't ever work out. |
And most of them have opinions about the difficulty of making art, the melancholy of getting older, the miseries of unrequitedness, etc. |
I will bring up the common theme of unrequitedness in this weblog many times, and hopefully people will relate. |