I need sad poety?

Question

I am in a drama club and i need poems that will take about 5 to 8 mins to read alowd. They must be published in a book or magizine. If posible i would like them to be about a person dieing, some one comiting suiside or any other truly depressing topics about people. please only publised ones and give the athor, title and if posible the title of where it came from.

i also need the mto be apropretie to read allowed

Answer 1

Donald Hall- any of his poems about his wife (Jane Kenyon) dying. (Kicking the Leaves and on). I can barely think of some of the lines, they make me so sad, especially when he describes the effects of her illness on her, him, them and the loneliness of being the spouse left behind versus the relief of her physical pain being relieved after her passing. Anyone who has had a loved one (not necessarily a spouse) suffer a terminal illness can feel his poems.
Oh, I almost forgot, here is a list of sad poems with links to diff. cats of sad subcats. A banquet of pain and misery awaits! Enjoy, lol!
http://www.netpoets.com/poems/sad/

Answer 2

Here are some suggestions:
"The Lament of Tasso" by George Gordon, Lord Byron
"The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes
"Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight" by Rose Hartwick Thorpe

Answer 3

Have you ever read Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology? It takes place in a graveyard and all the people speaking have died. Pauline Barrett is a suicide. There are many other sad ones. The entire book is online at Bartlby.
http://www.bartleby.com/84/index1.html

Read through them. There are many beautiful stories of the people who died.

Or Dylan Thomas' Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night is magnificent. Pax - C

Answer 4

I always found T.S. Eliots "Preludes" very sad, but that might not be what you are looking for. How about a monologue from Shakespeare, would that do? And I thought about Bill Knott's "End of Summer 1966", oh, and a lot of Anne Sexton's work is pretty sad.

Answer 5

Try some of Poe's works. "The Raven" is about the character's lost love. Some of his other poems are about lost loves. "The Bells" isn't such a poem, but it's still a very good, very interesting poem with it's musical feel.

Answer 6

Funeral Blues, by W. H. Auden.
Anything by Algernon Charles Swinburn. My favorite is the Garden of Proserpine.

Answer 7

the raven edgar allen poe

Answer 8

any emily dickinson poem