Word: gloom
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...What gives these sentiments interest is that behind them is Jeffers' one great, violent insight into the nature of things-an insight that has kept him going as a poet for 20 years, has formed his famous style, and made him a faintly theatrical, gloom-wrapped figure in U.S. poetry. He describes this insight as "a certain philosophical attitude, which might be called Inhumanism, a shifting of emphasis and significance from man to not-man; the rejection of human solipsism and recognition of the transhuman magnificence...
...routine matter. For some others, getting out of bed immediately makes it ten to one against them; awakening brings an emotional hangover that has nothing to do with liquor.*The day ahead seems impossible and even death preferable. Usually, with the routine of washing, dressing and breakfast, the gloom wears off and life seems worth living again...
...trip's end there was no doubt in the President's mind that he had done himself some good. Most of the people who heard him liked his fight and his folksiness. But his restored confidence did not lift the deep gloom overhanging most of the country's Democrats. Said a California Democrat: "He's a good egg. He'll be the most popular ex-President we've ever had. But you just can't put him back there and let him yack-yack with Congress for another four years...
Notable among the allegorical figures was "Gloom," garbed in long black veil and sweeping Gay Nineties feathers, who delivered dire predictions ("Slump and boom, slump and boom, is the rhythm of your doom"). There was also "Black Market" in a Piccadilly zoot suit; he offered his wares "out o' patriotism so as ter keep the owld country goin'," Central character was "Fear" (entwined from head to toe by a prop serpent), who declaimed: "Of all lands, my favorite and pet is England, blitzed and starving and in debt...
...Masque of Hope lived up to its title. In the end the serpent "Fear" and its attendant demons "Gloom" and "Want" were subdued like so many capitalist spivs...