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moon-lit-stars · 2 years

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"Then share thy pain,

allow that sad relief;

Ah, more than share it!

give me all thy grief. "

Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

#dark academia #academia quotes #books and libraries #quotes #poetry of instagram #poetry on tumblr #aesthetic words #poems and quotes #i tried #love poetry #alexander pope #eloisa to abelard

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lacomplaintedusoleil · 2 years

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parallels

John Milton, Paradise Lost // Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

#john milton #paradise lost #heaven #hell #alexander pope #eloisa to abelard #poetry #love #freedom #philosophy

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girlpetrarca · 3 months

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guy who has only read the Letters of Abelard and Heloise, reading Ovid's Heroides: getting a lot of Abelard & Heloise vibes from this...

#is this too niche #no but! deianira?? briseide? I know Eloisa has read these poems. she must have.#not sure if I'll elaborate or not #but yeah #ovid #abelard and heloise #personal

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my-deer-history · 1 year

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Alexander Pope was one of the most popular writers of the mid-to-late eighteenth century, and one of the most frequently quoted - often referred to simply as "the poet" due to his all-pervasive fame.

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the conferences which you so ardently wish for, cannot happen soon; in unbosoming oneself there are some Advantages in writing, if we may believe Mr Pope The virgin's wish without her fears impart, Excuse the blush, and pour out all the heart

John Laurens to Martha Laurens, 5 May 1775

Quoting from Pope's poem Eloisa to Abelard

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We are full of vices. They are full of weaknesses; though I will not agree with the poet that they are, “Matter too soft, a lasting mark to bear. And best distinguished by black brown or fair.”

Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, 3 September 1780

Quoting from Pope's poem Epistle to a Lady

#historical john laurens #historical alexander hamilton #john laurens #alexander hamilton #alexander pope #parallels #eloisa to abelard happens to be one of my favourite poems too

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nynevefromthelake · 7 months

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I love how some of you thought it was Abelard and Eloisa reference! It was Paolo and Francesca da Rimini by Rossetti but you can see it any way you like :3

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#fanart #sandman #sandman fanart #dreamling #dream of the endless #hob gadling #I have definitely overworked it and don’t really understand if I like the result #The lighting was a big struggle

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my-deer-friend · 7 months

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I shall only tell you that till you bade us Adieu, I hardly knew the value you had taught my heart to set upon you

Line after line my gushing eyes o'erflow, Led through a sad variety of woe: Now warm in love, now with'ring in thy bloom, Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! There stern religion quench'd th' unwilling flame, There died the best of passions, love and fame.

Light Years by The National // Euridice recedes into the Underworld (detail) by Enrico Scuri // The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien // Alexander Hamilton to John Laurens, April 1779 // Thisbe (detail) by John William Waterhouse // Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope // Welly Boots by The Amazing Devil

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Love and distance

#all my favourite things are about love and loss #the national #orpheus and eurydice #lotr #lams #pyramus and thisbe #alexander pope #the amazing devil #moodboard #aesthetic #dark academia

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yoonia · 1 year

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“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world, forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.” — Alexander Pope, ”Eloisa to Abelard"

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“We met at the wrong time. That’s what I keep telling myself anyway. Maybe one day years from now, we’ll meet in a coffee shop in a far away city somewhere and we could give it another shot.”

“You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another story.” — Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Minds

⟶ Character | Hoseok x reader ⟶ Genre | Past Lovers!AU, Lawyer!Hoseok, Artist!reader, New Beginning, inspired by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Minds (yes, the movie) ⟶ Ratings & Warnings | +18 / M for Mature; appropriate warnings will be applied on each story whenever necessary.

— Read:

Scene One.

⟶ Title | Spotless Minds ● 36k words ⟶ Summary | He was a man who had wanted too much, and you were a woman who had lost so much. Once the wounds from the past come in the way for you to embrace your future with the man you love, the option for a new beginning comes in the form of erasing the painful pages of your past to allow yourself to heal and to begin again. Even if he was also a part of it.

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Scene Two.

⟶ Title | Eternal Sunshine ● 39k words ⟶ Summary | You had always felt that meeting him was a chance of fate. He had always been the missing piece of the puzzle that you had been searching for, the beautiful stranger who had somehow become your home. But when your soul seems to refuse to stop searching, you begin to find scraps of the past that had somehow gone missing, erased and forgotten, hiding the pain that would have tainted the perfect life that you have built together. Suddenly, you are given a chance to open the pandora’s box, to collect the missing scraps of your past. Would you dare to open it and risk what you have with him, or would you leave it alone and move on, just the way you had decided to do it a long time ago?

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Bonus Scene.

⟶ Title | Sunset Glow (coming soon!) ⟶ Summary | Summer getaways have always been your favourite escape. A chance for you to step away from real life and all of its troubles, away from the hectic hours that you must endure every day, and you have always enjoyed the precious time that you get to spend with your lover. But as you accidentally stumble upon a reminder of the past that you have been slowly walking away from, you finally get to see Hoseok losing his resolve for the first time. It is now your turn to become his rock, and help remind him the reason why he has always been yours.

— Alternate universe: 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞

— Trivia:

⟶ Audio commentary: Writing process talk ⟶ Spotless Minds & Eternal Sunshine - behind the story (coming soon!)

— Cross-post: AO3 | Wattpad | Inkitt — Fic talk & feedback: Spotless Minds ● Eternal Sunshine ● Sunset Glow — Mailbox

#misc: masterlist #misc: visual concept #misc: music playlist #kvanity #bts moodboard #hoseok scenario #hoseok fanfic #hoseok smut #hoseok fluff #hoseok angst #jhope scenario #jhope fanfic #jhope smut #jhope angst #jhope fluff #hoseok x reader #jhope x reader

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lacrimosaghosts · 24 days

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Eden Lost Snippet

"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot: Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd." - Eloisa to Abelard (1717) by Alexander Pope

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Grant-Nash

Evan “Buck” Buckley has had Eddie Diaz erased from his memory. Please never mention their relationship to him again.

Thank you.

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Eddie didn’t bother wiping away the tears as they fell. A collage of memories played on a loop every time he closed his eyes, like a projector playing on the backs of his eyelids; a painful reminder of the little life he had made with Buck, heart constricting in his chest with each smile, each laugh, each hug and kiss his body and mind unfairly reminded him of.

His hands clenched tighter around the steering wheel; grip so tight the skin on his hands turned a ghostly pale color. There was nothing that could have prepared him for this. Nothing.

The piteous looks Athena and Bobby sent his way as Bobby relayed the news; the yellow slip of paper held out for the taking in Bobby’s outstretched hand.

Eddie took it with a furrowed brow. Lacuna Inc. was written in large bold block letters in the top right hand corner, and dead set in the center were the words that pierced through any façade he could have mustered up. He gasped for breath as his throat tightened and his eyes welled up with tears. He tried his best to fight them, to build up the walls he thought he had built up when Buck left, but the brick crumbled to dust and debris and the more he tried to fight it the heavier the tears fell. And once he started he couldn’t stop.

For an hour—one that felt like an eternity—he was blubbering mess on Athena and Bobby’s sofa. They held him, cooing his ear and whispering sweet nothings in his ear that they thought would soothe him, but there was nothing that could soothe the aching pain that rippled through him at the revelation that Buck didn’t remember him or their relationship.

He was still crying when he made it to his car, hiccupping breaths wracked through him as he turned the key in the ignition and pulled out into the residential street and onto the main. Christopher was at tía Pepa’s. He could go to a bar and drink his weight in alcohol, or—and he was already considering it, succumbing to the onslaught of exhaustion creeping up on his from sobbing on Athena and Bobby’s couch—he could go home and cry himself to sleep.

His bed was calling to him, tempting him to fall into the soft duvet and rest his weary head.

[coming soon]

#evan buckley #evan buck buckely #eddie diaz #edmundo eddie diaz #buck x eddie #buddie #9 1 1 #911 buddie #inspired by eternal sunshine of the spotless mind #lacrimosa writes

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courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme · 2 months

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a 2004 film directed by Michel Gondry starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet.

The screenplay, winner of the 2005 Oscar, is the work of Charlie Kaufman, who confirms his inclination for "psychological" and visionary films as demonstrated by other films such as Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

The film was a success with both audiences and critics and was also included in Empire magazine's list of the five hundred best films of all time at position 73.

The original title, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, was taken from a verse in the work Eloisa to Abelard (1717) by the English poet Alexander Pope (already cited in another Kaufman film, Being John Malkovich).

Joel Barish and Clementine Kruczynski meet by chance on the beach in Montauk, New York, and begin to build a relationship on the train ride to Rockville Center.

While Howard manages to get the process back to normal, Mary can no longer hide an infatuation with him and kisses him.

On Valentine's Day, Joel decides to abandon work and instead take a train to Montauk, where he meets Clementine and where the narrative hooks up to the first scene of the film.

On the morning of February 16, back in town after a night on the frozen Charles River, Joel takes Clementine to her house to get her toothbrush so she can follow him to his apartment.

At home Clementine finds a Lacuna cassette in her mail and listens to it in Joel's car; they both hear all of her criticisms about him, which makes Joel think that she is playing with her feelings.

The film's soundtrack was released by the Hollywood Records label on March 16, 2004 for the US market and on April 19, 2004 for the United Kingdom.

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letojessica · 2 years

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no one loves like i do.

norwegian wood, haruki murakami // intimacy, angelica alzona // metamorphoses, mary zimmerman // euphoria, cr. sam levinson // eloisa to abelard, alexander pope // crucifixion with mary magdalene, francesco hayez // sue zhao // 'demolition lovers' comic, @virtualangelstatue // canary in a coal mine, the crane wives // fleabag, cr. phoebe waller-bridge

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ladychlo · 2 years

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Hiiii Chay, how are you??? Hope you’re doing great!✨ But now that Harry is being sap on main and talking about poetry, can you recommend me/us your fav poetry books? Thanks❤️

Hi love ❤️ I'm doing fine how about you? hope you're having a lovely day!

okay, I'm gonna try to mention some of poetry collection/books I love and poems by some poets I really love, but these the only ones I could find the translation of, and I have so many other in mind 😭

Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me and Other Poems by Ghassan Zaqtan

Adonis: Selected Poems

A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor by Maram al-Massri

Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems by Mahmoud Darwish (anything actually by this poet is to be read. I love one of his poems called Rita and the Rifle)

also his other book called The butterfly's burden : poems

Arabian Love Poems by Nizar Qabbani

Listen to the Mourners by Nāzik Al-Malā’ika

A Season in Hell by Rimbaud

Letters To Lou by Apollinaire

Capital of Pain (Capitale de la douleur) by Paul Éluard

Defy the Silence by Rasha Omran

My Friend by khalil gibran

To A Girl Sleeping In The Street by Nāzik Al-Malā’ika

First Kiss by Tim Seibles

Numerical conjecture by Fowziyah Abu-khalid

from The Book of Games by Rana Al Tonsi

The Ship Of Love by Salma Jayyusi

Ghazal by Edil Hassan

obsession by Doria Shafik

Bermudas / South by Kamau Brathwaite

To A Friend by Parveen Shakir

Enivrez-vous (drink) by Charles Baudelaire

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot

Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W. B. Yeats

Accents By Denice Frohman

The Bond By Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

#I have so many others in mind #but I cant find the translation nor can I find a proper one that convey the right meaning #library #poetry

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lacomplaintedusoleil · 2 years

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parallels

John Milton, Paradise Lost // Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

#john milton #paradise lost #heaven #hell #alexander pope #eloisa to abelard #poetry #love #freedom #philosophy

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jbrookspress · 2 years

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), after a phrase from Alexander Pope’s poem Eloisa to Abelard (1717).

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my-deer-history · 10 months

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On partiality

A few thoughts on why 'partiality' - even more than 'love' - is an important expression in Hamilton and Laurens’ correspondence.

Partiality is a word that denotes fondness, preference or bias for one person over others, often used in sentimental writing as a synonym for love (both familial and romantic). Jane Austen uses both forms in Pride and Prejudice (1813):

Miss Bennet’s astonishment was soon lessened by the strong sisterly partiality which made any admiration of Elizabeth appear perfectly natural [...] I had often seen him in love before. […] From that moment I observed my friend’s behaviour attentively; and I could then perceive that his partiality for Miss Bennet was beyond what I had ever witnessed in him.

Hamilton himself uses partiality in the context of love in a letter to Elizabeth Schuyler:

I believe in my soul you are an inchantress; but I have tried in vain, if not to break, at least, to weaken the charm—you maintain your empire in spite of all my efforts—and after every new one, I make to withdraw myself from my allegiance my partial heart still returns and clings to you with increased attachment.

Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, 5 October 1780

But partiality is not a direct synonym for love - the nuance comes from the fact that it is an antonym of impartiality.

An enlightened 18th century gentleman walked a fine line to balance rationality - which elevated reason, intellect and justice (especially in the spheres of public life, such as politics and business) - with sentimentality - which expected him to display profound emotion at appropriate (usually private) moments, as a testament to his morality.

Expressing love was certainly a virtuous thing - a man could profess love for his family, spouse, country, comrades, beliefs (religious or otherwise), and so on - but when it was labelled partiality, that love was made less gentlemanly, less virtuous and noble. Partiality masked flaws, reducing the ability to make objective choices, and hinted at a weakness of character in a gentleman who was supposed to be fair, just and disinterested in his dealings. Therefore, a man who called himself partial was admitting that he allowed his feelings to affect his integrity, and was showing preference one person over others in a way that was possibly unfair or unwarranted - an intimate personal favouritism.

We see it used in this form in works spanning the century. In Alexander Pope’s 1717 poem, Eloisa to Abelard, Eloisa begs for her “partial eyes” to be turned away from her lover, Abelard, and back to pure religious love.

Yet then, to those dread altars as I drew, Not on the Cross my eyes were fix'd, but you: Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all. […] Ah no! instruct me other joys to prize, With other beauties charm my partial eyes, Full in my view set all the bright abode, And make my soul quit Abelard for God.

In Charlotte Smith’s Emmeline (1778), partiality is contrasted with virtuous affection:

But for your charming friend my heart long retained its partiality; nor would it ever have felt for her that pure and disinterested friendship which is now in regard to her its only sentiment, had not the object of my present regret and anguish been thrown in my way.

In Evelina (1778), Fanny Burney shows the peril of partiality in masking flaws.

Yet perhaps I have rather reason to rejoice than to grieve, since this affair has shown me his real disposition, and removed that partiality which, covering his every imperfection, left only his virtues and good qualities exposed to view. [...] You flattered yourself that your partiality was the effect of esteem, founded upon a general love of merit, and a principle of justice; and your heart, which fell the sacrifice of your error, was totally gone ere you expected it was in danger.

We see this subtlety of meaning in Hamilton’s April 1779 letter to Laurens:

But as you have done it and as we are generally indulgent to those we love, I shall not scruple to pardon the fraud you have committed, on condition that for my sake, if not for your own, you will always continue to merit the partiality, which you have so artfully instilled into me.

In using feigned legalese (“pardon the fraud you have committed”), Hamilton puts himself in the role of a judge, but admits that he is not an impartial one - he is acting self-awarely according to his personal bias, and the love he expresses is tinged by it. Hamilton uses partiality again in his 8 January 1780 letter, after Laurens tries to promote Hamilton as a better candidate for the diplomatic mission to the court at Versailles:

Believe me my Dr Laurens I am not insensible of the first mark of your affection in recommending me to your friends for a certain commission. However your partiality may have led you to overrate my qualifications that very partiality must endear you to me.

In other words - your affection means that you’re not being objective about me, and that’s adorable. He’s teasing, acknowledging both his own shortcomings and Laurens’ inability or unwillingness to see them. Hamilton puts it in even plainer terms in his 30 June 1780 letter, in which he discusses the possibility of Laurens being paroled early. He contrasts both the “love” the military family feels for Laurens and the fair and objective rules of war with his own subjective affection:

I have talked to the General about your exchange; but the rigid rules of impartiality oppose our wishes. I am the only one in the family who think you can be exchanged with any propriety, on the score of your relation to the Commander in Chief. We all love you sincerely; but I have more of the infirmities of human nature, than the others, and suspect my self of being byassed by my partiality for you.

In sum, Hamilton’s written correspondence expresses love for Laurens in a variety of ways beyond the obvious - the word ‘love’ itself is indeed less telling than the other phrases he uses. In the context of the period, calling both himself and Laurens partial towards each other suggests that their affection was not just the pure and rational comradeship of fellow-soldiers, but a more personal, intimate and subjective sentiment.

#historical john laurens #historical alexander hamilton #john laurens #alexander hamilton #historical lams #18th century history #sentimental language #queer history

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rabbitmotifs · 1 year

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im so embarrassed oh my god imagine me being an english major and fan of movies and not realizing eternal sunshine of the spotless mind is titled from alexander popes eloisa to abelard poem until now... mortifying

#theres too many things in the world for me to read the fact that i dont get every single ref to #every piece of media in the history of ever is painful

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thesunsethour · 2 years

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hi eve 🫂🫂🫂 still reeling from secondhand hapiness over ur poetry news!! u deserve it and so much more 😌 what would u say are ur top 5 favourite poems (by any poet)?

i want this ask filed under ‘Top 10 Questions You Should Never Ask An Annoying English Lit Student’

HERE WE GO (in no particular order) (do not expect proper analyses uni is over until september im out of office)

Good Bones by Maggie Smith

when i first read this i think it implanted itself into my brain. “a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways” is a phrase that i often come back to when i’m spiralling into an existential crisis of some sort. anyway this is a beautiful and poignant poem

The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats

hey sometimes the poetry you had to study for your junior cert exams when you were 15 stick with you, alright? Ah, Yeats. the most insane of the early twentieth century Irish Revival Era poets. PLEASE google his relationship with Maud Gonne. how there hasn’t been a hollywood biopic about him yet i don’t know. anyway the irish revival was a period in time where irish poets (still living under british rule) decided to write about their love of Gaelic culture. although a lot of this era’s poetry is very pastoral it is inherently political as it depicts Irish culture and Irish nature and Irish life. all things that the brits wanted to stomp out. would recommend reading Easter 1916 by Yeats as well!

Extract from The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh

i may be stretching the definition of poem a wee bit. this is a LONG FORM VERSE. LOOOONG. but so so good. also by an Irish poet (who was Heaney’s inspiration btw) and paints a very human, very satirical, very Irish depiction of a farmer’s life in rural Co. Monaghan. i had to read this for my Irish Writing module last year and absolutely loved it

Extract from Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope

yeah yeah the poem from where “eternal sunshine of the spotless mind” originates. but it is SO MUCH MORE. i’m such a sucker for doomed and forbidden romances and this 18th century re-telling of a medieval tale is just stunningly beautiful and an emotional read

The Daisy Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker

take a quick look at the last line of the first stanza. OH! look at that! it’s my url! little storytime: when i was born my mum’s friend crocheted this poem and it’s been hanging up in my room (illustrations and all) ever since. it’s such a lovely little poem and i know both my mum and I treasure it a lot (the illustration was originally done by Barker as well btw it’s so lovely)

(ignore the bad cropping of this picture)

#hello kajs!!! this was such a lovely message to get i-🥺🥺🥺 ur so sweet ily bestie!!#i am now subjecting you to my poetry ramblings #enjoy at your peril #kajs tag

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