Dulce et Decorum Est
Wilfred Owen
95/100
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Curated mood entry points into the V2Melody catalogue — poems and poet landscapes ranked by interpretive emotion profiles. Pick a doorway, then refine with the Emotion Spider.
These are catalogue guides to how work may feel when heard or read — not labels on authors, biographical facts, or clinical measurements.
Poems of joy
Lightness, delight, and celebratory warmth
Poems of sorrow
Grief, melancholy, and quiet sorrow
Poems of longing
Yearning, absence, and aching desire
Poems of wonder
Awe, curiosity, and luminous surprise
Poems of fear
Dread, unease, and trembling uncertainty
Poems of anger
Heat, defiance, and righteous force
Poems of tenderness
Gentle warmth, intimacy, and soft colour
Poems of peace
Calm, stillness, and restorative quiet
Poems of irony
Wry distance, paradox, and tonal complexity
Poems of sensuality
Embodied warmth, texture, and sensual tone
Poems of spirituality
Transcendence, sacred tone, and the numinous
Poems of despair
Hopelessness, darkness, and crushing weight
Poems of irony — featured picks
Top live poems by Irony intensity in cached profiles.
A Happy Vicar I Might Have Been
George Orwell
90/100
Break of Day in the Trenches
Isaac Rosenberg
90/100
Glory of Women
Siegfried Sassoon
90/100
How Gilbert Died
Banjo Paterson
90/100
Love's Warfare
Philip Bourke Marston
90/100
Man, the Creator!
James Oppenheim
90/100
Matilda Who told Lies, and was Burned to Death
Hilaire Belloc
90/100
Memorial Tablet
Siegfried Sassoon
90/100
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
Thomas Gray
90/100
Porphyria's Lover
Robert Browning
90/100
Richard Cory
Edwin Arlington Robinson
90/100
Survivors
Siegfried Sassoon
90/100
The General
Siegfried Sassoon
90/100
The Ghost of the Murderer's Hut
Banjo Paterson
90/100
The Man He Killed
Thomas Hardy
90/100Install V2Melody
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