All 5 Uses of
melancholy
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land.
Chpt 2melancholy = sad
- Their stillness is the reason why these memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow—a vast, inapprehensible melancholy.
Chpt 6melancholy = sadness
- But as it is I perceive behind them only the suffering of the creature, the awful melancholy of life and the pitilessness of men.
Chpt 8
- We grow melancholy.
Chpt 10melancholy = thoughtfully sad
- But perhaps all this that I think is mere melancholy and dismay, which will fly away as the dust, when I stand once again beneath the poplars and listen to the rustling of their leaves.
Chpt 12 *melancholy = sadness
Definition:
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(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad