Melancholic poems: poetry of melancholy

Melancholic poems: poetry of melancholy.

Melancholy is not necessarily poetic; However, Romanticism claimed it as an essential ingredient for the poetic act, essentially because this movement assumed that art, or rather, all artistic intention, comes from a state of sadness.

In this way, melancholic poems are not those that necessarily verse about sad situations; but exactly the opposite: it is the memory of a state of plenitude, even happiness, that drives melancholic poetry.

Nowadays, where melancholy in crude terms is not really popular, it continues to exist, although under a new mask. In fact, we can articulate an evolution of melancholy in poetry beginning with the melancholic temperament of Romanticism, which became lachrymatory during the Victorian era, and which finally transformed into humor—and into irony, into cynicism, into sarcasm—through from modernism.

And although melancholy is not poetry, poetry cannot be anything other than melancholic. The question, in any case, is how to express it.

In this section we will give an account of some of the most outstanding melancholic poems in our library.

Poems of melancholy:

The Pleasures of Melancholy (The Pleasures of Melancholy, Thomas Warton)Song of Melancholy (Charlotte Dacre) Alienation (Alienation, HP Lovecraft) The Nights Remember (Sara Teasdale) Melancholy (Melancholy, Samuel Coleridge) Ode to Melancholy (Ode to Melancholy, John Keats)Ode to Melancholy (Ode to Melancholy, Elizabeth Carter) I Thought of You (Sara Teasdale) Farewell to Love (John Donne) The Scarecrow ( The Scarecrow, Walter de la Mare) The Mirror of Melancholy (The Mirror of Melancholy, Alejandra Pizarnik) The Garden of Love (The Garden of Love, William Blake) The Melancholy Pool (Clark Ashton Smith) Annabel Lee (Annabel Lee, EA Poe) When Soft Voices Die, Percy Bysshe Shelley How many times these low feet staggered, Emily Dickinson Pain and time do not fight (Pain and Time Strive Not, William Morris) Attempt at Jealousy (Popytka revnosti, Marina Tsvetaeva)The Night is Darkening Round Me, Emily Brontë)The Shadow on the Stone, Thomas Hardy) Meditations Among the Tombs (James Hervey) You Would Have Understood Me (Ernest Dowson) Mold (Mildew, Charlotte Dacre) Nobody, Not Even the Rain, EE Cummings) No Man Is an Island, John Donne) Nostalgia, Mary Elizabeth Counselman I Had No Time to Hate, Emily Dickinson , Robert Burns) Remember Me (Margaret Mead) Do you remember that night? (An Cuimhin Leat An Oíche Ud?, anonymous) Posthumous Remorse (Charles Baudelaire) Resurgemus (Resurgemus, Sarah Helen Whitman) Surprised by Joy, William Wordsworth Gilman) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost One Art, Elizabeth Bishop We Wear the Mask, Paul Laurence Dunbar From Adam, to Lilith (Adam, to Lilith, E. Hoffmann Price)

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