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Famous Beside The Point Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Hikmet, Nazim
...infirmary.

I can't smell the medicines--
carnations must be blooming nearby.

It's this way:
being captured is beside the point,
the point is not to surrender....Read more of this...



by Ashbery, John
...ues by means of an investing
Aura that would corrode the architecture
Of the whole in a haze of suppressed mockery,
Are beside the point. They are out of the game,
Which doesn't exist until they are out of it.
It seems like a very hostile universe
But as the principle of each individual thing is
Hostile to, exists at the expense of all the others
As philosophers have often pointed out, at least
This thing, the mute, undivided present,
Has the justification of logic, w...Read more of this...

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