and actions to fully determine what being a Sad Girl even means. The art, movies, books, poems, etc., that Sad Girls consume and imitate, aren’t in and of themselves a glamorization of depression.

Her poem “Lady Lazarus” draws parallels between ... The internet trend of a “Sad Girl persona” has taken off in recent years with musical artists like Lana del Rey referenced constantly.

Most nights, we sign off goodnight texts with the closing lines of a poem by one of our favourites ... And who could be more sad girl than Marianne in Sally Rooney’s Normal People?

She is a Sad Girl, claiming our sympathy ... These lines summon “The Silken Tent,” a poem by Robert Frost, which begins, “She is as in a field a silken tent . . . loosely bound / by ...