Existential Dread.com: Share the Dread

Soren Kierkegaard
The grandaddy of dread has some
not so happy words to share.

William B. Yeats
The poet speaks for the black
Irish soul of the human condition.

William Shakespeare
The Bard wasn't always comparing thee
to a lovely summer's day.

Herman Melville
What was Moby Dick really about?
Not about life's neverending joy, for sure.

Charles Baudelaire
The French poet's idea of spring?
"The Flowers of Evil."

Lord Byron
Everyone's favorite romantic
poet? He had his sorrowful days, too.