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Hi, I'm tearing my hair out with all this university work. Anyway, could any help me with a bit of it and recommend some poems/poets about a loss in religious belief? I know about the Victorians and all that, but I have malfunctioned and can't of any others (more recent, I mean.) |
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you could be really clever and just argue the point that all poems are about a loss of faith |
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I could, if I was clever, but unfortunately I'm not clever enough for that. :-) |
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Nobody? |
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You should check out W.H. Auden's poems. I know he gradually lost his faith in God, and that's bound to be reflected in some of his poems. I can't be bothered to google myself to death to find one of these poems, though... Good luck to you, sir! |
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i'm sure war poems will be a safe bet |
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Arseni Tarkovsky has probably written a bunch about loss of faith. |
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Ash Wednesday by TS Eliot might be of some use. Its ultimately about the difficulty of fully committing to religious belief. Not about losing it per se, but about the ultimate inability of people to fully commit to it. Likewise you might wanna look at some of John Donne's stuff. The Holy Sonnets are great. But not at all modern. And similarly about the difficulty of faith rather than a loss of faith. |
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Jan Kochanowski's "Threnodies" are a perfect school example here in Poland. From Wiki: His masterpieces include Treny (Threnodies, 1580, translated into English in 1995 by Stanisław Barańczak and Seamus Heaney as Laments)—a series of nineteen elegies upon the death of his beloved two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Urszula; and Odprawa posłÃ³w greckich (The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys, 1578; recently translated into English by Indiana University's Bill Johnston), a blank-verse tragedy that recounted an incident leading up to the Trojan War. |
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Life is bigger It's bigger than you And you are not me The lengths that I will go to The distance in your eyes Oh no I've said too much I set it up That's me in the corner That's me in the spotlight Losing my religion Trying to keep up with you And I don't know if I can do it Oh no I've said too much I haven't said enough I thought that I heard you laughing I thought that I heard you sing I think I thought I saw you try Every whisper Of every waking hour I'm Choosing my confessions Trying to keep an eye on you Like a hurt lost and blinded fool Oh no I've said too much I set it up Consider this The hint of the century Consider this The slip that brought me To my knees failed What if all these fantasies Come flailing around Now I've said too much I thought that I heard you laughing I thought that I heard you sing I think I thought I saw you try But that was just a dream That was just a dream |
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That song is about sexuality, not religion. |
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