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D_21
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D_21 asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 9 years ago

Poems by well known poets expressing anger?

Are there many poets who bothered to express anger in their poetry? There are many poems for love, sadness, or even delight. What about the rest of the spectrum of human emotion?

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    Yes; I wrote my Master's thesis on "The Poetry of Rage." Everybody from the author of Psalm 58 to Amiri Baraka to all sorts of people in between have done so. My favorites include Catullus's Song 16 (quite obscene, so avoid it if you don't like that kind of thing) and Donald Hall's "Prophecy" (which is based on the angry poem of Amos in the Old Testament, but updated to the 20th century).

  • 9 years ago

    The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there

    Nearly killed me for asking the loan of a glass of beer:

    May the devil grip the whey-faced slut by the hair

    And beat bad manners out of her skin for a year.

    That parboiled imp, with the hardest jaw you will ever see

    On virtue's path, and a voice that would rasp the dead,

    Came roaring and raging the minute she looked at me,

    And threw me out of the house on the back of my head.

    If I asked her master he'd give me a cask a day;

    But she with the beer at hand, not a gill would arrange!

    May she marry a ghost and bear him a kitten and may

    The High King of Glory permit her to get the mange.

    [James Stephens]

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