Poems about the evil side of humans or society

[THX-1138]

hi all
i need recommendation of at least 2 poems that are about the evil side of humans or society

thanx

[Scheherazade]

Can you be a little more specific, please, THX?

Would 'The Secong Coming' by Yeats be suitable?

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

-- William Butler Yeats

[THX-1138]

hi there schr yes the second coming is suitable thanx very much,what i meant is poems that deal with the evil side of the human nature or that of a society.

[Il Penseroso]

Prettty much anything by Robert Browing would work. "My Last Duchess", "Fra Lippo Lippi", etc.

[SteveH]

Paradise Lost?

[tinustijger]

I always thought Blake critisised not just the church with 'the garden of love' but most of all the people who put religion above anything. Maybe you can use that poem?

[THX-1138]

thanx for all of you that was helpful

[Redzeppelin]

I believe Baudelaire's "Flowers of Evil" is in this vein.