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This thesis examines whether poetry can be considered a particularly suitable genre for addressing existential questions, through analyzing Caroline Ringskog Ferrada-Noli's debut poetry collection, Den förlorade sonen. Employing a lyrical analysis methodology, the thesis examines the three most central existential themes in the book and how the author chooses to portray them. The aim of this analysis is also to gain a deeper understanding of my own interest in addressing existential questions through poetry and what that appeal is about. The outcome reveals that three of the most prominent existential themes in Ferrada-Noli's Den förlorade sonen are death, identity and anxiety. The studys close textual analysis demonstrates how the author writes in a highly varied form, ranging from prose-like passages to fragmented verse lines through enjambments, blank spaces, line breaks and other literary pauses. Typical lyrical devices such as imagery, metaphors, repetition, alliteration, anaphora and other various types of rhyme are also applied to influence the poem's mood, create contrasts and paradoxical connections which render certain words or themes into something more powerful and memorable. The white spaces in poetry have been shown to remind us of a certain nothingness that we cannot speak about, but which poetry in this way can. In conclusion, these lyrical devices have an essential impact on the magnitude and force of the poem's existential themes and the reader's emotional resonance.