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Question:I just need one poem about fear and anixity from a biritish poet


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You're down to one? Well done!

Having done a bit of work, I was going to give you three.
Two from Kipling: The incredibly short, and pointed:

"The Coward."
I could not look on Death, which being known,
Men led me to him, blindfold and alone.

(from WW1 epitaphs)

And the longer "Cholera Camp" (See below.)
Less direct, but a litany of fears and reactions.

And to try and prove I'm not a Kipling addict (though I am), perhaps:
Charlotte Bronte's "The Teacher's Monologue"
Especially:
"To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,–
Is such my future fate ?
The morn was dreary, must the eve
Be also desolate ?"

Or Thomas Gray's fears for the future of innocent childhood:
"Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College"
"Alas, regardless of their doom,
The little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come,
Nor care beyond today:
Yet see how all around 'em wait
The ministers of human fate,
And black Misfortune's baleful train! "


There's always the obvious fretting prince, in Shakespeare's Hamlet!

Fear or anxiety

Edmund Burke, whose Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful was published in 1757, believed, however, that "terror is in all cases whatsoever . . . the ruling principle of the sublime" and, in keeping with his conception of a violently emotional sublime, his idea of astonishment, the effect which almost all theorists mentioned, was more violent than that of his predecessors: "The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature . . . is Astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other." [Burke, On the Sublime, ed. J. T. Bolton. 58]

Found a web page on Edmund Burke - but it is rather DEEP

Christina Rossettis 'Goblin Market

It is a long beautiful commentary of fear and anxiety for a sister who is being woed by the temptation of promiscuity. In the context of the times it was frightening and graphic. You could use an excerpt.