Not astute, not shrewd, not insightful, not intelligent. One that is too much for the mind, too much to understand. Melancholy abrupts thought control, taking over, controlling, breaching a new depth. It is a time of new regime, a time where jurisdiction is…

In Life, Charlotte Brontë puts forth man’s never-ending discontent for life’s downs in three wholesome, imagery-packed stanzas. She focuses on (mainly) three, intertwining ideas throughout her poem: the first being that the hardships we face are temporary and result in better things, the…