Sad verses Happy poetry?

[rowens]

I think that's when Kierkegaard seems most authentic too. Writing as the melancholy aesthete. But I guess he felt kind of ashamed of it, and tried to go beyond it. The Christian aspects of culture emphasize sorrow and suffering in such an extreme way, though all religions work with a touch of sadness. Everybody wants to be a martyr. That's another temptation that a true Christian writer has to face.