Dystopian Poetry

[jamesdunne96]

Does anyone know any good dystopian poems that I could use for my coursework essay on Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451? I have already read The Wasteland but I'm not too sure about it.

[Lokasenna]

The Wasteland is a possibility, and you might consider The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock alongside it.

I can't think of much else off the top of my head. Perhaps Hardy's The Darkling Thrush - if not actually dystopian, it looks forward to the coming 20th century with an absolute cynicism and quiet defeated despair.

[mal4mac]

Yeats, "the Second Coming" perhaps?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_(poem)

The title Brave New World comes from Shakespeare's Tempest, if you are allowed to use poetic drama, it might be worth looking up. Huxley loved to use lines from great, grim poems as titles - "After Many a Summer" is another one (not dystopian, though...)