A compendium of despondent masculinity. As if written on rows of headstones, these ten poems are forever in purgatory, wandering, wailing, wishing, wasting away. Adorn yourself with their laurel-wreathed shackles, anoint yourself with their perfumed bloodguilt, gild yourself with their threadbare nihilism, and peer through the holes in their phantom’s sheets.
This compendium chronologically traces the experience of the underwhelmed man, from wist, to solitude, to suffering, to utter apathy, as he attempts to navigate an unreceptive, sterile modernity.
Post Scriptum;
It is an inescapable truth that underwhelmed men write poetry; I am no different. What follows are my own endeavours in writing about despondent masculinity, which can be found elsewhere on this website, ‘from the journal of a sentimentalist’.
Poems for Underwhelmed Men
Poems for Underwhelmed Men
Poems for Underwhelmed Men
A compendium of despondent masculinity. As if written on rows of headstones, these ten poems are forever in purgatory, wandering, wailing, wishing, wasting away. Adorn yourself with their laurel-wreathed shackles, anoint yourself with their perfumed bloodguilt, gild yourself with their threadbare nihilism, and peer through the holes in their phantom’s sheets.
On the Continent, Charles Bukowski
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O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, John Keats
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Mummia, Rupert Brooke
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For Love, Robert Creeley
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From the Journal of a Disappointed Man, Andrew Motion
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The Day the Lady Died, Frank O’Hara
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Aspects of Robinson, Weldon Kees
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The Blue Flannel Suit, Ted Hughes
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Death’s Echo, W. H. Auden
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Lines on Roger Hilton’s Watch, W. S. Graham
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This compendium chronologically traces the experience of the underwhelmed man, from wist, to solitude, to suffering, to utter apathy, as he attempts to navigate an unreceptive, sterile modernity.
Post Scriptum;
It is an inescapable truth that underwhelmed men write poetry; I am no different. What follows are my own endeavours in writing about despondent masculinity, which can be found elsewhere on this website, ‘from the journal of a sentimentalist’.
Beside the Hand of a River God
Concerning Pearl
Augural Autoportrait
Ursa Minor
The (re)Birth of Venus
I hereby entrust you with the august.
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