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Taking off the amber, putting out the lamp
Taking off the amber, putting out the lamp

Author(s): Monica Bilauca
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: suicide note; farewell letter; semantics; differential semantics

Summary/Abstract: After first dealing with the theoretical background of suicide notes and farewell letters, with their history, semantics, and “differential diagnosis,” we deal with the particular case of poets, writers and artists and do not fail to see that theirs are richer in symbolic values, with regard to at least nine lexical units: frustration, anxiety, unhappiness, disorientation, hopelessness, negative self-evaluation, void, the desire to disappear, the sense of failure.

  • Issue Year: 3/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 16-23
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English