I need to do a research paper on a famous poet, who is a really depressing poet?

Question

I don't want Emily Dickenson or Edgar Allen Poe. Someone else that writes depressing, suicidal ,and dark poems. They must be some what famous.

Answer 1

I would go with Sylvia Plath... I mean, she gassed herself in her own kitchen when she was thirty.. that's depressing..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath#Biography

And here's one of her poems that's pretty depressing:

April 18

the slime of all my yesterdays
rots in the hollow of my skull

and if my stomach would contract
because of some explicable phenomenon
such as pregnancy or constipation

I would not remember you

or that because of sleep
infrequent as a moon of greencheese
that because of food
nourishing as violet leaves
that because of these

and in a few fatal yards of grass
in a few spaces of sky and treetops

a future was lost yesterday
as easily and irretrievably
as a tennis ball at twilight


more poems: http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/

Answer 2

Heres 12 and hers the web site to more info about each good luck


E.E. Cummings
T.S. Eliot
Robert Frost
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ogden Nash
Langston Hughs
Eugene Fields
Emily Dickison
Edgar Allen Poe
Robert Louis Stevenson
Carl Sandburg
Walt Whtman




http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/poets/poet.htm

Answer 3

Edgar Allen Poe is a pretty good depressing poet

Answer 4

You dont mention if they have to be a certain nationality or not.
My personal favorite is Charles Simic. Not all of his poetry is depressing - but then again, not all poets are mentally ill.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/27


Rimbault - wrote a poem called "a season in hell" that is worth looking at - now he was a troubled writer, if thats what your looking for.
Roethke - another troubled soul.
And then there is Billy Collins who is the poet Laureate (he won a nobel prize of the United states - who, while he poetry is not "depressing" writes about some depressing topics.

Answer 5

a million) Matthew Arnold 2) Robert Frost 3) Lucille Clifton 4) Paul Verlaine 5) Jonathan quick the purely one I have heard of and purely knew about Olliver's Travels. 6) Vita Sackville-West 7) Lisel Mueller 8) Anne Killigrew 9) Rebecca Elson 10) Thomas Warton

Answer 6

John Milton, a 17th century English poet, is someone I consider depressing. He wrote Paradise Lost in 1667, which I thought was very depressing. Ernest Hemmingway could write poems that could make you depressed. Emily Bronte is another one who wrote about things very depressing. She wrote Withering Heights. She lived in the 1800s and she lived in England in Yorkshire County and things were real gloomy for this cockney area during that period. There were three Bronte sisters, Emily, Charlotte, and Anne. I can't remember which one it was, but one of them wrote a lot about death. I'm sure you'll really enjoy their writings. If you weren't already depressed, maybe they can help you out!

Answer 7

My first choice would have been Edgar Allen Poe, but since that's out, I'd have to say Sylvia Plath.

Answer 8

Check out Charles Baudelaire, or Arthur Rimbaud, Sylvia Plath or Anne Sexton.

Answer 9

sylvia plath, but maybe everyone already said that.
wilfred owen if you like war poems--
or how about Cowper, a depressed 18th c. poet. See his despairing, "The Castaway," often quoted by the sad Mr. Ramsay in Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"

Answer 10

What comes to my mind , is: Bartelby, The Scrivener
by Herman Melville.

It is not a poet but a short story, though.

Charles Baudelaire`s poems certainly answer your question.