tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246797287811539521.post8639338379042561903..comments2022-04-07T10:37:46.850-05:00Comments on English 208b: The Impossible, Perverse and Strange: Love is BlindDahlia Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09174548009168267294noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246797287811539521.post-54720924611940696102010-03-21T22:48:58.829-05:002010-03-21T22:48:58.829-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.ReggaeVideoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12197275686700545185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246797287811539521.post-86813066460200785692010-03-01T22:06:27.239-06:002010-03-01T22:06:27.239-06:00I agree that the mother / child relationships depi...I agree that the mother / child relationships depicted in these poems are clearly perverted in a strange way from a rational / psychological standpoint. As to the question you pose - "why the extremes?" - I think the answer lies in the nature of the Gothic tradition itself. Normal, functional mother / son relationships would not make good fodder for Gothic poetry. Instead, these poets choose to describe the consequences of emotional anomalies and depravities in order to examine the place of rationality and the supernatural in each of these relationships. In looking at "The Idiot" and "The Idiot-boy," I think it is safe to say that the unnatural results of these mother/son relations springs from the fact that these boys are irrational to begin with. To put it more clearly, the sons (doomed from the beginning to a life of irrationality as a result of being mentally retarded) somehow transfer their unnaturalness to their mothers.Zack Jarretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05580308572137286525noreply@blogger.com