tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11415684.post115036421917393226..comments2024-01-10T06:40:26.416-05:00Comments on Chesterton and Friends: Reasons to live - GKC styleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11415684.post-1150407449027473832006-06-15T17:37:00.000-04:002006-06-15T17:37:00.000-04:00I have read in a few places that as an adolescent ...I have read in a few places that as an adolescent he "struggled with thoughts of suicide."<BR/><BR/>But then, how many teens have done likewise? I have never read that he seriously considered it.<BR/><BR/>As an adult, however, he clearly opposed the idea of suicide.<BR/><BR/>This poem is, in his collected poems, part of a series of "Ballades" ("A Ballade of an Anti-Puritan," "A Ballade of a Book-Reviewer," "Ballade D'une Grande Dame," etc.), all of which are humorous. <BR/><BR/>I believe the same holds true of this poem.A Secular Franciscanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09184259228282290040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11415684.post-1150397421085163382006-06-15T14:50:00.000-04:002006-06-15T14:50:00.000-04:00Thanks furor.Lily.Thanks furor.<BR/>Lily.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11415684.post-1150391631864213142006-06-15T13:13:00.000-04:002006-06-15T13:13:00.000-04:00Well, when dealing with GK, it's important to reme...Well, when dealing with GK, it's important to remember that he was interested in <I>everything</I>, in one way or another, so his choice of topics should possibly not be read into so thoroughly.<BR/><BR/>However, from what I've read of him, he never struggled with suicide, and considered it, even at the height of his agnostic mysticism, to be the supreme act of treason. There were struggles, of course, and trying ones; but I don't think suicide was one of them.Nick Milnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15677481833245634421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11415684.post-1150384714955970382006-06-15T11:18:00.000-04:002006-06-15T11:18:00.000-04:00Did GKC struggle with suicide?I'm sorry, but I've ...Did GKC struggle with suicide?<BR/>I'm sorry, but I've never read a bio on him and wonder if he did since he seems to be interested enough to write this poem....<BR/>Thanks, Lily.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com