The suicides may not have been a result of writing poetry, yet the myth was created unfortunately, even though novelists gave them good competition. The crossing land between the two genres was with Thomas Hardy who was pessimistic or realistic. Yet preferred money to the poverty he would have gotten had he stuck with poetry. Truly the 20th century was when poetry took a dive as if factories and poetry could not exist together. Finally the Beatles said poetry is back, and that was lyrics.