Despondent Poets

[billy]

mmm, i wonder if these suicides would still have been suicides were they not poets? i suspect they would. i dare say that most suidiciders in or out of poetry follow a similar pattern. withdrawn, self flagellating (is that the word?) while non suiciders would be more extrovert, able to mix and enjoy life's extremes.

but surprisingly the amount of words with negative emotion (for example, "hate") or positive emotion ("love") did not vary significantly between the groups.

i'm not surprised, after people have written poetry for a while, they tend to shy away from such words and instead use imagery or other device to show them. such words are classed as intangibles. if you read plath though, you will find that hate, fear, and emotions in general litter her poetry.

nice vid