avatarLucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)

Summary

Anger is depicted as an intense emotional response that masks underlying feelings such as hurt, humiliation, fear, frustration, and rejection.

Abstract

The website content likens anger to a loud shout that demands attention, often overshadowing the true messages and emotions it conceals. It suggests that beneath the aggressive exterior of anger lies a spectrum of vulnerable feelings, including hurt, humiliation, fear, frustration, and rejection. The text implies that anger can be a protective mechanism, expressing deeper fears such as the fear of having boundaries crossed or experiencing non-consensual events. Additionally, the author mentions engaging with shorter poetic forms.

Opinions

  • Anger is portrayed not just as a loud emotion but as a form of communication that can obscure its true causes.
  • The author suggests that anger often stems from more complex and sensitive emotions like fear and hurt.
  • There is an implication that anger can serve as a defense against vulnerability and past traumas, such as breached boundaries and experiences of rejection.
  • The inclusion of tweets and references to "tinier" poems indicates the author's broader engagement with emotional expression through various artistic mediums.

Anger

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Anger is a shouty emotion.

It cries, and cries louder until all you hear is the magnitude of sound but not the words, not the meaning.

Underneath the big display it hides the true face:

Hurt Humiliation Fear Frustration Rejection

When my anger shouts I am actually afraid, of boundaries being overstepped again of things happening to me without my consent.

I tweet tinier poems also.

Poetry
Anger
Emotions
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