im looking for a poem that is really depressing, maybe with allusions to suicide or something like that. know any?
2006-11-12 15:01:49 · 12 answers · asked by pseudosmartie 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
and please, don't just tell me to google it.
2006-11-12 15:07:21 · update #1
I had to do a report on the poem the Wasteland by TS Eliot when I was in school. I don't remember much about it, but my assigned writing partner tried to kill herself in the middle of the project...don't know if it was the poem. Probably not, but still...TS Eliot is not exactly a happy writer.
2006-11-12 15:09:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most Depressing Poem Ever
2016-12-12 13:28:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-11-12 15:16:22 · answer #3 · answered by Iranian Amigo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've read several depressing poems, mostly because they were so badly written. The form you're looking for is Melancholia. Poe has several.
2006-11-12 15:12:09 · answer #4 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For poems, try Thomas Hardy. He's pretty bleak in some of his poetry. But the lyrics to "Left and Leaving" by a band called the Weakerthans has stayed in its position as the number one saddest song/poem I have ever heard in my entire life.
2006-11-12 16:15:45 · answer #5 · answered by maggiej117 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like Suicide
By Cris Cornell from Soundgarden
2006-11-12 15:12:15 · answer #6 · answered by Deegoor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath. The last line, "Daddy, you bastard, I'm through," has a resounding despair. Plath committed suicide. The poem is unbearably bleak.
2006-11-12 15:18:56 · answer #7 · answered by meatpiemum 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Almost anything by Sylvia Plath.
2006-11-12 22:57:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shakespearean poetry is very depressing!!! Also, check out Edgar Allan Poe.
2006-11-12 15:10:12 · answer #9 · answered by dctalkilove2 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath, a poem by that great poet about another of her failed suicide attempts. (She was finally successful in it later.)
2006-11-12 15:28:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋