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Poems about hatred delve into the darker aspects of human emotions and explore hatred’s destructive power and consequences.
These poems often examine the causes and manifestations of hatred, such as prejudice, discrimination, or personal grievances. They may depict the intense emotions accompanying hatred, including anger, resentment, and bitterness.
Poems about hatred can also explore its impact on individuals, relationships, and society. Through imagery and poignant language, these poems shed light on the dangers of hatred, the need for empathy and understanding, and the potential for healing and reconciliation.
‘As it Should Be’ is a powerful and telling satirical take on the violence that plagued Northern Ireland for decades.
We hunted the mad bastard
Through bog, moorland, rock, to the star-lit west
And gunned him down in a blind yard
Between ten sleeping lorries
And an electricity generator.
‘Havisham’ by Carol Ann Duffy explores the psychological reality of Dickens’ Miss Havisham from a feminist perspective.
Beloved sweetheart bastard. Not a day since then
I haven’t wished him dead. Prayed for it
so hard I’ve dark green pebbles for eyes,
ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with.
‘Those Annual Bills’ by Mark Twain is a humorously bleak poem that bemoans the insufferable and unsatiated onslaught of bills the speaker is confronted with each year.
These annual bills! these annual bills!
How many a song their discord trills
Of "truck" consumed, enjoyed, forgot,
Since I was skinned by last year's lot!
‘A Poison Tree’ presents the consequences of harboring anger, which becomes a poisonous tree wreaking devastation.
I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
‘The Portrait’ by Stanley Kunitz is a sad poem about the speaker’s ill-fated attempt to learn more about their deceased father.
My mother never forgave my father
for killing himself,
especially at such an awkward time
and in a public park,
‘The Snowman on the Moor’ explores the turbulent and abusive relationship between the speaker (presumably Plath herself) and her male spouse.
Stalemated their armies stood, with tottering banners:
She flung from a room
Still ringing with bruit of insults and dishonors
‘The Wound’ by Ruth Stone describes with unflinching detail the harmful ways in which some words can inflict lasting hurt.
The shock comes slowly
as an afterthought.
First you hear the words
and they are like all other words,
‘Porphyria’s Lover,’ opens up with a classic setting of a stormy evening. It is a story of a deranged and lovesick man.
The rain set early in to-night,
The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore the elm-tops down for spite,
And did its worst to vex the lake:
‘A Kind of Love, Some Say’ by Maya Angelou explores the horrors of abusive relationships, highlighting that there is no love in pain.
Is it true the ribs can tell
The kick of a beast from a
Lover’s fist? The bruised
‘& even the black guy’s profile reads ‘sorry, no black guys” by Danez Smith explores racial rejection, self-love, and empowerment.
imagine a tulip, upon seeing a garden full of tulips, sheds its petals in disgust, prays some bee will bring its pollen to a rose bush. imagine shadows longing for a room with light in every direction. you look in the mirror & see a man you
‘If We Must Die’ by Claude McKay powerfully encourages the reader to stand up for and with the Black community. One should show strength in the face of discrimination, he says.
If we must die—let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
‘The Merchant’s Tale’ by Geoffrey Chaucer features January’s quest for a wife and the Merchant’s satirical views on marriage.
Whilom ther was dwellynge in Lumbardye
A worthy knyght, that born was of Payve,
In which he lyved in greet prosperitee;
And sixty yeer a wyflees man was hee,
Written in the form of a prayer, ‘O Lord, Our Father,’ is a poem in which Mark twain takes aim at the horror of war as well as the idea of religion being used to support war. War and religion were two subjects that Twain was a regular critic of and he turns his full anger on them in this poem.
O Lord, our father,
Our young patriots, idols of our hearts,
Go forth to battle - be Thou near them!
With them, in spirit, we also go forth
‘1861’ by Walt Whitman is a moving Civil War poem written from the perspective of a soldier. He details the difficulty of a particular year.
No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you,
terrible year!
Not you as some pale poetling, seated at a desk, lisp-
ing cadenzas piano;
In ‘3 November 1984,’ Indian-English poet Sujata Bhatt shows how history plays a vital role in the process of writing poetry, and their interconnectedness.
I won’t buy
The New York Times today.
I can’t. I’m sorry.
But when I walk into the bookstore
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