What is your view of Gothic culture? How do you feel about what you see and what you know of “goths”?
I think the Gothic aesthetics is quite beautiful… For me today’s goths have followed the path of the English romantics : tumultuous passions, bottomless despair, irruption of the strange.
In a consumerist society, this clan sets itself apart – as if a reminder of another world, or another aim.
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Well, I just remembered about Byron, having feasts and drinking wine directly from monks skulls …Scaring.Of course than he wrote few dark lines…
There’s nothing wrong with Goth. I’ve had Goth friends growing up and they are very sensitive and caring individuals. I think Goth is a state of mind, so it’s a reflection either in their appearance or their writing or any art of their choice. I think most people experience it growing up in their own way. I don’t think anyone escapes it at one point or another in their lifetime… Really doubt it!
barcelona’s gothic distric is very interesting, i think to each their own!!
had my gothic period myself when i was a teenager, painting my nails and lips black, that was funny.
The first amendment in the USA gives us the right to free speech, which should allow anybody to believe and follow whatever they want, and be respected for it. To some extent Goth as a modern culture, has been allowed to come out in the open, followers being interviewed on the Ricky Lake and other tv shows, and you see the culture more ‘promoted’ when Ozzi Osborn these days does a commercial for a Black Berry, wearing his black painted fingernails. Too bad the second amendment, the right to bear arms still is a threat to free expression, as knowing most of your neighbors are loaded with guns, make you shut up with a lot of what you believe in! To me we still should draw a line with what is criminal, abusive behavior, and quit being over-tolerant toward hatred. Hatred need to STOP. We are Human beings on our way to Divine perfection, only then will we be Happy.
Once upon a time, I dated, and for about three years, lived with a fellow who was a Goth. He wrote the most amazing poetry: dark stanzas, haunted by vivid specters, eloquent words that verily dripped with the deep-red stain of perpetual despair. We were in our early twenties. I felt I was living with Keats, or, more likely Shelley. Living with him was like sitting on a rocky promontory, overlooking the dark waters of a tumultuous ocean: everything was gray-green seafoam, dead things washing ashore, the thunder of enormous of waves pounding the shoreline at night. It was the feel of the tide sucking the sand from beneath your feet, the undertow threatening to drag you under to a watery grave. My, but it was great! With such vivid intensity we lived!
So much of life is made so stale and so dry by the suffocating norms of the culture in which we live. We’re always told that we are “supposed” to be happy, and if we’re not happy, we’re supposed to act happy – above all, we’re supposed to smile. In our modern society, we’re supposed to act like the Dark Side of life doesn’t exist. And if the Dark Side somehow pops up and intrudes upon our sunshine-and-green-lawn lives, were supposed to ignore it – go to the beach for the day, sit under a bright yellow umbrella, and hope it goes away.
Somehow I think we’re missing the point: in worshipping too fervently the Sun, we’ve negated the Moon. The Goths are trying to remind us that there is another side to life, the side we’ve chosen to ignore – the Dark Side, without which, the light simply makes everything pale and drab. Try to imagine a landscape without shadows! That is what we are striving for in our modern society. But it is the shadows that give richness and depth to all the forms, to life itself.
Dear Savita, for you Keats is A Gothic poet? Now I disagree. Or,let me know which poem you feel that way,by Keats. He was a Romantic poet.I feel his lines much brighter than the poems of Byron or Shelley. Maybe in his lat years he wrote some dark stuff?
Let me know.
Bye, take care
Alexandra
“I belong to your world, I’m wearing the same uniform as your army, so don’t shoot:”
I think they look cute, I know someone who does not like them though:)
They are no different to some of the indigeneous tribes. I thought at one stage, of having one ring around my ears …scared the hell out of some people.- others were not surprised – hey, with la mamie branchee expect the unexpected..
:) have a splendid gothic day! I love it
Love
Marie-Christine
Is about the stream know as Gothic? Frankenstein by Marry Shelley?
Dracula by Bram Stocker?
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Dearest Annie, I did not know anything about the subject today!
If Goths is a culture dealing with ..vampires, dracula, death, fear, black magic and darkness, I would prefer to …be .. ignorant..;]
Because whatever we see, listen or deal with, go directly to our subconscious and affect our Souls. If you see death, evil and despair then at the end your world becomes a dark one. You attune to it.
Once I went with my daughters in London for a graduation ceremony.. So we went to ..’Trocadero’ it was very fashionable then. The music was so wild and loud and I could not stay more than a few minutes. I told them: Let’s go away from here. This is the Devil’s house!! ;] They both burst to laughter. Now my grand-son is a fan of all this bands..
LOVE,
Thelma.