does anyone has a list of good poems with the theme of despair?
thx
Here's one:
Sympathy
by Emily Jane Brontė
There should be no despair for you
While nightly stars are burning,
While evening pours its silent dew
And sunshine gilds the morning.
There should be no despair - though tears
May flow down like a river:
Are not the best beloved of years
Around your heart forever?
They weep - you weep - it must be so;
Winds sigh as you are sighing,
And Winter sheds his grief in snow
Where Autumn's leaves are lying:
Yet these revive, and from their fate
Your fate cannot be parted,
Then journey on, if not elate,
Still, never broken-hearted!
Les
Hopkins: Carrion comfort
Larkin: Aubade
Keats: Ode on Melancholy
Stevie Smith: Not Waving but Drowning
parts of Tennyson: In Memoriam
Arnold: Dover Beach
the last two acts of kjing Lear
Hey, do you know anything about Edgar Allen Poe? He's all about dispair.
Read edgar allan poes the raven. its really quite bleek and a good poem to boot.