Famous Analysis Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Analysis poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous analysis poems. These examples illustrate what a famous analysis poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Account Of A Visit From St. Nicholas

by Ralph Waldo Emerson
 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, 
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar plums danc'd in their heads,

And Mama in her 'kerchief, and I in my...Read more of this...

Tests

by Walt Whitman
 ALL submit to them, where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to analysis, in the
 Soul; 
Not traditions—not the outer authorities are the judges—they are the judges of
 outer
 authorities, and of all traditions; 
They corroborate as they go, only whatever corroborates themselves, and touches
 themselves; 
For all that, they have it forever in themselves to corroborate far and near,...Read more of this...

He was my host -- he was my guest

by Emily Dickinson
 He was my host -- he was my guest,
I never to this day
If I invited him could tell,
Or he invited me.

So infinite our intercourse
So intimate, indeed,
Analysis as capsule seemed
To keeper of the seed....Read more of this...

The Definition of Beauty is

by Emily Dickinson
 The Definition of Beauty is
That Definition is none --
Of Heaven, easing Analysis,
Since Heaven and He are one....Read more of this...

The Lilac is an ancient shrub

by Emily Dickinson
 The Lilac is an ancient shrub
But ancienter than that
The Firmamental Lilac
Upon the Hill tonight --
The Sun subsiding on his Course
Bequeaths this final Plant
To Contemplation -- not to Touch --
The Flower of Occident.
Of one Corolla is the West --
The Calyx is the Earth --
The Capsules burnished Seeds the Stars
The Scientist of Faith
His research has but just begun --
Above his synthesis
The...Read more of this...

Mornings Like This

by Barry Tebb
 Mornings like this I awaken and wonder

How I have moved so far, how I have moved so little

And yet in essence stayed the same

Always passionate for the unattainable

For Joan Baez to make me her analyst,

To tour Ireland with Eddie and Finbar Furey

To be made a Chevalier des Palmes for translating Milosz.

I remember one road, many roads I did not...Read more of this...

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