Dead Poets

Poison Pill is the debut single from Steampunk Republic—a dark gothic-rock story about obsession, temptation, and the kind of love that feels impossible to resist, even when you know it is destroying you.

“Nevermore” reimagines Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Raven" as a dark, cinematic collision of gothic rock, steampunk atmosphere, and haunting electronic energy.

Charles Dickens’ “The Ivy Green” celebrates ivy as a symbol of endurance, memory, and nature’s quiet strength.

Inspired by Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s poem “The Year,” “Woo the Woe” turns the cycle of love, loss, hope, and heartbreak into a gothic pop-punk anthem.

Inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Skeleton in Armor,” “Saga Untold” reawakens a forgotten Viking spirit from iron, ice, and grave-silence.

The song is inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Light of Stars,” particularly its image of the red planet Mars as a symbol of courage, endurance, and calm strength in the darkness.

Inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Music, When Soft Voices Die,” first published posthumously in 1824, this song explores how love survives after a relationship ends. Blending Shelley’s timeless imagery with modern heartbreak, it asks what remains when the voice is gone and love is left sleeping inside the memories we cannot escape.

“The Lamp Remains” is inspired by three defining American texts: Emma Lazarus’s poem “The New Colossus,” Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

“Hey Dolly!” is a lively folk-rock celebration inspired by Austin Dobson’s 1885 poem The Milkmaid.

Inspired by Robert Frost’s “Wind and Window Flower” (1913).

Inspired by Homer’s Odyssey, “Siren Song” follows Odysseus beyond Circe’s island and toward the voices that promise forbidden knowledge from across the sea.

Inspired by Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein: Modern Prometheus".

Inspired by Barry Cornwall’s 19th-century poem (1832) “The Sea,” Steampunk Republic turns a Romantic ode to the ocean into a rocking sea shanty!

Inspired by Robert Frost’s poem, “Maple” tells the story of a woman carrying the final word her mother left behind—her name.

Inspired by Emily Dickinson’s haunting meditation on mortality, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” reimagines a quiet carriage ride into eternity.

Inspired by Edward Taylor’s poem (c. 1682) “Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children,” “The Knot” reimagines his poem as a gothic devotional hymn.

Inspired by Ovid’s telling of Medusa in Metamorphoses, this song reimagines the famous monster as a tragic figure shaped by betrayal, punishment, and injustice.

Inspired by Robinson Jeffers’s “Shine, Perishing Republic.” The poem was written in the early 1920s and first published in 1925.

“Gather Up the Pieces” is inspired by Dorothy Parker’s “Threnody,” a witty, defiant poem about heartbreak and resilience.