The romantic roundelay, linking fine emotions with fine lingerie, is shadowed by the brutality of Soviet tyranny.
There can at times be a tendency to think of poetry as being primarily concerned with the natural world and fine emotions, a precious art divorced from the realities of everyday life.
In public pronouncements King was sometimes unrepentant: "I recognize terror as the finest emotion," he wrote in his study of the horror field, "Danse Macabre" (1981), "and so I will try to terrorize the reader.
The same authors also proposed 24 finer emotion categories including, e.g., 羞 xiu "shame," 烦 fan "annoyed," 傲 ao "pride," 信 xin "trust," and 疑 yi "suspicion" based on 372 emotion-related words, but the relationship between the seven basic types and the 24 finer categories was not explained6.
What she has in common with Hank is an alienation from her finer emotions.
It's a milieu in which social-climbing is a stronger motive than love, and makes for an atmosphere of distrust that finally corrodes the finer emotions.
Bierce's ghost stories are all, in a sense, campfire tales, yarns spun in the kind of darkness and solitude where every sound is menacing and, as he writes in "The Death of Halpin Frayser," "all the finer emotions were swallowed up in fear".
He says it's working on further building out these capabilities — including being able to detect fine-grained emotion from social media posts, raising the possibility that the bot could be sensitive to emotional fragility in future.
In Os Lusíadas Camões achieved an exquisite harmony between classical learning and practical experience, delicate perception and superb artistic skill, expressing through them the gravity of thought and the finest human emotions.
But keep in mind that there's a fine line between emotion and hysteria.
