Grave poetry is probably the reason why the black scene still likes to engage in poetry today. In the mid-18th century, the grave poets wrote about and even in the graveyard. Themes such as loneliness, death and transience were central to their works. Goths are not necessarily familiar with literary history, but they benefit from its offshoots.
Poems can be melancholic, sad, artful, lost in thought or even angry. In any case, poetry has to do with intense feelings and an introverted view of the world - and that fits in perfectly with the Gothic scene. But not only reading poetry is popular, writing poetry is also widespread among goths. The relevant scene magazines had and still have their own sections in which the "black" readership can publish their rhymes. Special issues with poems by readers have even been published.
Rhymes don't stop on stage either. Some artists pick up on well-known poetry in their songs. The song Annabel Lee by the Cruxshadows, for example, deals with the poem of the same name by Edgar Allen Poe. The band Tanzwut took up the ballad about the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, while The Cascades performed Goethe's Hexeneinmaleins. The band Omnia has also been on the road in terms of poetry. They set Edgar Allen Poe's poem "The Raven" to music. If you believe Wikipedia, an international study showed that 48% of the goths surveyed were into poetry and lyrics. Incidentally, the song lyrics of the "New German Death Art" are very often reminiscent of poetry and lyricism.
