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Bildungsroman

"Bildungsroman" childish things become children the sweetness leaves them when the dream in reality leaves them to walk hand in hand with the nightmare of what becomes us as adults protagonists are sometimes heroes sometimes villains inside us all dwells a versatile shadow we save ourselves by extracting the unwanted familial in our marrow antagonists challenge the villain in our heroes we are torn in two walking down the middle path a territorial line safe and blunt drawn from the grey of sharp black being and null white seeing dull dotted lines wanting erasure signatures we are footprints walking out all our contracts time stipulated, then broken for better or worse driven to Bildungsroman a complacent district insouciant no longer kicking and screaming tokens passed between malleable lips, minds slipping softly marshmallow into the long kiss good night children again, dreaming becomes us (LadyLabyrinth / 2022) "A Dream About You" / Airshade, Dreamscape https://youtu.be/lt0_ql7duDg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildungsroman

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Lady Labyrinth

Date: 10/21/2022 1:21:00 AM

gvlm. Xx

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/21/2022 2:08:00 AM

https://phil-williams.co.uk/all-shirley-jackson-books-reviewed/

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/21/2022 1:21:00 AM

"Hangsaman" 10/10; "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" 10/10; "Bird's Nest" 10/10. My picks, which I have read. Xx

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 10/20/2022 4:55:00 PM

I was inspired to write this poem after reading, “Hangsaman” by Shirley Jackson, an American novelist.I then watched the 2020 movie(more centred around the process of Jackson's writing the novel).It made me consider our ‘Life Journey’ overall. I was then inspired to read Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery”. “Hangsaman” is a coming of age story (female), a best seller, written by Jackson in the ‘50s, but relevant to today’s journey. After contemplation, I considered, we are all on that Bildungsroman Road, in some way (male, and female), and the coming of age is staggered. “The Lottery” written in 1948 as a short story published in The New Yorker, is a corker. It is relevant to bullying, and to the depths of visciousness/ruthlessness a society will fall in general. In short, scapegoating and mob mentality. I was unable to locate free ebook link for “Hangsman”, but purchasable on line. “The Lottery” a short story by Jackson, published in The New Yorker in 1948 (link in comments).

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/20/2022 5:20:00 PM

Many will best know Jackson’s story, “The Haunting of Hill House”.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/20/2022 4:56:00 PM

In all, reading Jackson, and further research of Jackson, made me contemplate my own life and the literature term, Bildungsroman. I have written this poem with Jackson’s stories in heart and my thoughts on life, in mind. Yes, there are some wonderful poets and writers out there. As well as within the PS site. Much can be learned by reading the stories/lives of others (writers, poets, or not). It is an avid addiction of mine, to understand others (including writers, poets, artists), perhaps to increase levels of empathy to a higher dimension, rather than tearing peers to shreds in a pack, like a feeding frenzy of blood thirsty sharks. But then, when one considers that scene, it is in fact, the way of ‘critics’ in most societies. Perhaps it is the reptilian mindset we all harbour, to survive as the fittest. I can feel a horror story coming on. Halloween and the persecution of witches approaches.

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 10/20/2022 4:55:00 PM

Other examples of Bildungsroman include: “Jayne Eyre”, Charlotte Bronte; “Great Expectations”, Charles Dickens; “The Catcher in the Rye”, J.D. Salinger; “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Harper Lee.

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 10/20/2022 4:55:00 PM

“The Lottery”, Shirley Jackson, Short Story, 1948, The New Yorker

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/20/2022 4:57:00 PM

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 10/20/2022 4:55:00 PM

"Hangsaman”, Shirley Jackson, Novel, 1951.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/20/2022 4:58:00 PM

Unable to locate a free e-book link for those who are interested in reading. Available on Sound Cloud, for free, but not the same impact as 'reading'. Purchasable on line.

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 10/20/2022 4:55:00 PM

Shirley Jackson, Author. Bio

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/20/2022 4:59:00 PM

https://www.gale.com/intl/databases-explored/literature/shirley-jackson

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 10/20/2022 4:55:00 PM

Hangsaman

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/20/2022 4:59:00 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangsaman

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 10/20/2022 4:55:00 PM

The Lottery

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/20/2022 5:00:00 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lottery

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 10/20/2022 4:55:00 PM

“You might never find your way back : Shirley Jackson’s “Hangsaman”. ”/ Nicholas Rombes, 2013.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/20/2022 5:01:00 PM

https://therumpus.net/2013/07/12/you-might-never-find-your-way-back-shirley-jacksons-hangsaman/

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 10/20/2022 4:54:00 PM

“The Essential Self of Natalie Waite in Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson”/ Abstract, Susan J. Behrens

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/20/2022 5:01:00 PM

https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/2244

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 10/20/2022 4:54:00 PM

“I Mean, It’s Not Anything Serious, Ever, Is It? : Predatory Teacher-Student Relationships in Shirley Jackson’s “Let Me Tell You” and “Hangsaman”. / Research Article, Brittany Speller, Oct 2020.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/20/2022 5:02:00 PM

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00497878.2020.1822841?cookieSet=1

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 10/20/2022 4:54:00 PM

Classic books you should read: Shirley Jackson’s ‘Hangsaman’. Review/Demetrios Mammas Aug 9, 2021/The Emory Wheel

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/20/2022 5:03:00 PM

https://emorywheel.com/classic-books-you-should-read-shirley-jacksons-hangsaman/

Unseeking Seeker

Date: 10/20/2022 8:08:00 AM

Lost innocence, sometimes rekindled but I fear mostly not

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/20/2022 5:04:00 PM

is that what it's about? but you do make your point. Thank you. My thoughts above.

Becky Forbes

Date: 10/20/2022 6:32:00 AM

Love this! My favorite is "antagonists challenge the villain in our heroes"

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/20/2022 5:05:00 PM

Thanks Becky. Love that you love. My thought process behind it in links above. xx