![]() There are several theories about how constant anxiety of this type may affect the cardiovascular system. The effect is more pronounced in people who already have a diagnosis of heart disease, and the risk rises with the intensity and frequency of anxiety symptoms. In particular, people who have generalized anxiety disorder (see "Symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder") seem to suffer higher rates of heart attack and other cardiac events. ![]() There is mounting evidence for an independent anxiety–heart disease link as well. The relationship between heart health and depression is well documented. For example, two people may have similar biology, but one of them is anxious, while the other is more depressed. Stress, anxiety, and depression can be viewed as one family of related problems. Long-term, unrelenting stress can be a precursor to both conditions. As many as two-thirds of people with anxiety disorders also suffer from depression at some point in their lives, and over half of people with depression also have an anxiety disorder. In fact, anxiety and depression are likely different expressions of a shared underlying biology. A toxic mixĪnxiety most often travels in the company of its henchmen-stress and depression. Emotional turmoil triggers the release of stress hormones, which act on the same brain areas that regulate cardiovascular functions such as heart rate and blood pressure. These classic anxiety symptoms are often mistaken for a heart attack-and for good reason. This short poem uses simple language to capture the calm of the sea.Managing anxiety can improve your quality of life and take stress off your heart.Ī wave of dread overcomes you-your chest hurts, your heart flutters, and you can't catch your breath. The finest poet of the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes (1902-67) often writes about the lives of African Americans living in America, especially in New York, in the early twentieth century, but he also wrote well about nature. Sometimes calm can be anything but soothing: it can seem unnatural, even ominous. Here she meditates on the calm that a deep peace brings: Yet at its best, Teasdale’s work has a lyricism and beauty which can rival that of many poets of her time. Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) was an American lyric poet whose work is often overlooked in discussions of twentieth-century American poetry. The poem, with its recurring refrain to ‘sleep safe till tomorrow’, might be thought of as a lullaby. Whilst Orion’s sword glistens and the serpent writhes, all is peaceful and calm on earth. This poem from another of America’s greatest modernist poets looks to the stars for its subject – and, specifically, the constellations. William Carlos Williams, ‘ Peace on Earth’. Subjective personal experience appears objectively real.Ĩ. ![]() Of course, seems is the key word, but Stevens doesn’t use it: for him, or for the book-reader in the poem, the world was calm. The house in which this solitary reader reads their book is quiet, and the whole world seems calm. ‘The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm’ is a lyric poem reflecting on an experience that will be familiar to many readers of poetry (and readers of this blog): reading late into the night. It’s also about how the act of reading, the quiet of the house, and the solitariness of the house-dweller intersect. ![]() This poem is about the intersection of different sensory experience, and how their combination creates a particular mood or moment. Stevens is one of the great American modernist poets of the twentieth century. Wallace Stevens, ‘ The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm’. Philip Larkin was an admirer, praising her ‘steely stoicism’.ħ. She went on to influence a range of later poets, including Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ford Madox Ford, and Elizabeth Jennings. Goblin Market and Other Poems was the first collection of her poetry to be published, and it was the book that brought her to public attention. It ran simply: ‘Cecilia never went to school / Without her gladiator.’ She composed her first poem while still a very young girl she dictated it to her mother. She was the younger sister (by two years) of the Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. For night has come and the great calm has ceased,Īnother poem about the pleasant calm of the late evening as the day ends, giving way to night.Ĭhristina Rossetti (1830-94) was one of the Victorian era’s greatest and most influential poets.
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