id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8426 Sorrow (emotion) - Wikipedia .html text/html 1431 274 60 Sorrow (emotion) Wikipedia Sorrow (emotion) Emotion of prolonged, resigned sadness Sorrow is an emotion, feeling, or sentiment. 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"[3] — up to W. Postponing the expression of the feeling causes its energy to grow'.[13] At the same time, it would seem that 'grief in general is a "taming" of the primitive violent discharge affect, characterized by fear and self-destruction, to be seen in mourning'.[14] Shand and McDougall[edit] William McDougall disagreed with Shand's view, observing that Shand himself recognized that sorrow was itself derived from simpler elements. ^ Anna Wierzbicka, Emotions across Languages and Cultures (1999) p. Hunter, Little Book of Big Emotions (London 2004) p. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sorrow. Social emotional development Categories: Emotions Commons category link is on Wikidata ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8426.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8426.txt