Sorrow (emotion)
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| [[Image:L'Absinthe (1876) - Edgar Degas.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[L'Absinthe]]'' ([[1876]]) - [[Edgar Degas]]]] | [[Image:L'Absinthe (1876) - Edgar Degas.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[L'Absinthe]]'' ([[1876]]) - [[Edgar Degas]]]] | ||
| [[Image:Laocoön Group, Clamores horrendos detail, photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen (2009).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Illustration: ''[[Laocoön and His Sons]]'' ("[[Clamores horrendos]]" detail), photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen.]] | [[Image:Laocoön Group, Clamores horrendos detail, photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen (2009).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Illustration: ''[[Laocoön and His Sons]]'' ("[[Clamores horrendos]]" detail), photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen.]] | ||
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| + | ''[[The Artist Moved by the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins]]'' ([[1778]]-[[1779|79]]) by [[Henry Fuseli]]]] | ||
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| '''Sorrow''' is an [[emotion]], feeling, or sentiment of intense [[sadness]], suggesting a degree of [[resignation]]. | '''Sorrow''' is an [[emotion]], feeling, or sentiment of intense [[sadness]], suggesting a degree of [[resignation]]. | ||
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| ==Etymology== | ==Etymology== | ||
| From Middle English ''sorow, sorwe'', from Old English ''sorh, sorg'', from Proto-Germanic ''*surgō'' (cf. West Frisian ''soarch'', Dutch ''zorg'', German ''Sorge'', Danish ''sorg''), from Proto-Indo-European ''*swergʰ-'' 'to watch over, worry' (cf. Old Irish ''serg'' 'sickness', Tocharian B sark 'id.', Lithuanian sirgti ‘to be sick’, Albanian ''dergje''m (“I fall ill”), Sanskrit ''sū́rkṣat''i ‘he [[worries]]’ ). | From Middle English ''sorow, sorwe'', from Old English ''sorh, sorg'', from Proto-Germanic ''*surgō'' (cf. West Frisian ''soarch'', Dutch ''zorg'', German ''Sorge'', Danish ''sorg''), from Proto-Indo-European ''*swergʰ-'' 'to watch over, worry' (cf. Old Irish ''serg'' 'sickness', Tocharian B sark 'id.', Lithuanian sirgti ‘to be sick’, Albanian ''dergje''m (“I fall ill”), Sanskrit ''sū́rkṣat''i ‘he [[worries]]’ ). | ||
| + | ==In the arts== | ||
| + | * [[Sorrow, lithograph by Vincent van Gogh]] (1882) | ||
| + | * [[Sorrow, Tears and Blood]] (1977) by Fela Kuti | ||
| == See also == | == See also == | ||
| + | * [[Depression (mood)]] | ||
| * [[Unpleasant ]] | * [[Unpleasant ]] | ||
| * [[Grief]] | * [[Grief]] | ||
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| * [[Suffering]] | * [[Suffering]] | ||
| * [[Woe]] | * [[Woe]] | ||
| - | *[[Sorrow, lithograph by Vincent van Gogh]] (1882) | + | * [[Misery]] |
| * [[Moan]] | * [[Moan]] | ||
| * [[Woe]] | * [[Woe]] | ||
| * [[Sorry]] | * [[Sorry]] | ||
| * [[Pang]] | * [[Pang]] | ||
| + | * [[Melancholy]] | ||
| * [[Mourn]] | * [[Mourn]] | ||
| * [[Tears]] | * [[Tears]] | ||
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Sorrow is an emotion, feeling, or sentiment of intense sadness, suggesting a degree of resignation.
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Cult
Romanticism saw a cult of sorrow develop, reaching back to The Sorrows of Young Werther of 1774, and extending through the nineteenth century with contributions like Tennyson's In Memoriam - 'O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me/No casual mistress, but a wife' - up to W. B. Yeats in 1889, still 'of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming'.
Postponement
Julia Kristeva suggests that 'taming sorrow, not fleeing sadness at once but allowing it to settle for a while...is what one of the temporary and yet indispensable phases of analysis might be'.
Etymology
From Middle English sorow, sorwe, from Old English sorh, sorg, from Proto-Germanic *surgō (cf. West Frisian soarch, Dutch zorg, German Sorge, Danish sorg), from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- 'to watch over, worry' (cf. Old Irish serg 'sickness', Tocharian B sark 'id.', Lithuanian sirgti ‘to be sick’, Albanian dergjem (“I fall ill”), Sanskrit sū́rkṣati ‘he worries’ ).
In the arts
- Sorrow, lithograph by Vincent van Gogh (1882)
- Sorrow, Tears and Blood (1977) by Fela Kuti
See also
- Depression (mood)
- Unpleasant
- Grief
- Regret (emotion)
- Suffering
- Woe
- Misery
- Moan
- Woe
- Sorry
- Pang
- Melancholy
- Mourn
- Tears
- Alas
