.Why do I love you so
It has been suggested that Van Gogh was extremely sensitive to images of sorrow, whether in the Bible, contemporary literature, or life and nature.We shall never know exactly why he decided to shoot himself that Sunday, July 27, in the wheat fields behind the Château of Auvers. Tellingly, in his last letter to his mother and Will he reported "a mood of almost too much serenity"--a chilling note before the calmity.In Auvers, too, the tranquility he desperately longed for had proved as ephemeral and ultimately elusive as ever. The pervasive melancholy that he had recognized in himself in his early years in Holland and that he had struggled to hold at bay had finally manifested itself in his illness in where his heart found no resolution at the middle of the midst of the scornful society, his dead bed.
When his dream came true
