Tag: Melancholy

Melancholy poems. This is a difficult term to use, and yet K-M Skalkenæs have done just that to classify a selection of her poems.

Why not use ‘Sadness’ instead? Because ‘melancholy’ may refer not just to the content of a poem, but in equal measure to the tone and feeling of it. It is a more versatile description, essentially.

So, some of the poems here may be sad. Some may be contemplative. Some may directly deal with depression, and yet others may simply be pondering the transient nature of life and nature.

Read on to see what the archive contains – it’s too hard to pin down in an explanation.