Famous Cancelling Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Cancelling poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous cancelling poems. These examples illustrate what a famous cancelling poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Hughes, Ted
...all our ages a loss
With leaf and insect. Yet flitting thought
(Not to be thought ridiculous)
Shies from the world-cancelling black
Of its playing shadow: it has learned
That there's no trusting (trusting to luck)
Dates when the world's due to be burned;
That the future's no calamitous change
But a malingering of now,
Histories, towns, faces that no
Malice or accident much derange.
And though bomb be matched against bomb,
Though all mankind wince out and nothing e...Read more of this...
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