Please help me write a note on melancholic poetry.

The following hints may help you:1.Melancholy means
sadness or depression of spirits,a deep feeling of sadness that lasts for a long
time.2.A melancholy mood descends on a poet when he is fatigued with this
'pestillence-stricken world','proud man's contumely','law's delay' and 'insolence of
office'.3.Melancholy poems are a desparate search for mental peace which is   shattered
by sorrow or personal loss or pain or by death of near or dear ones.4.Melancholy poetry
is the recollection of sad feelings in a pensive mood.5.Readers obviously feel the
poet's agony that could be equated with ours.Melancholy poems often reveal high -levels
of anxiety.6.A sad poet often returns to nature in an attempt to have respite from the
ache in his heart which, he believes,could be healed by the gentle and affectionate
touch of nature.So Nature-Man relationship is an important theme of melancholy
poetry.7.Every modern man is a Hamlet who has been suffering from gloom leading almost
to an illness.Melancholy poems reflect and reproduce the sadness man is writhing with.8.
Now mention some well known poets and their poems eg. Keats'Ode to a
Nightingle-meditation on the beauty of the bird's song and the sadness of the
observer who must in the end accept sorrow and mortality. Tennyson's In
Memorium-was written in memory of A.H.Hallam,an intimate friend of his who
died at Vienna aged 22.It represents the author's regret for his lost friend and
expresses the poet's own anxieties about change,evolution,and immortality,a subject that
continued to perturb him deeply.It is apoem of despair,but of despair of a religious
kind.