Famous Capsize Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Capsize poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous capsize poems. These examples illustrate what a famous capsize poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Berryman, John
...hand like a notch.
They flung long silent speeches. (Off the hook!)
They sandpapered his plumpest hope. (So capsize.)
They took away his crotch....Read more of this...
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley
...l her royals wore.
Sharp with her, shorten sail!
Too late; lost; gone with the gale.
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This was that fell capsize,
As half she had righted and hoped to rise
Death teeming in by her portholes
Raced down decks, round messes of mortals.
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Then a lurch forward, frigate and men;
'All hands for themselves' the cry ran then;
But she who had housed them thither
Was around them, bound them or wound them with her.
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Marcus Hare, high her captain,
Kept ...Read more of this...
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Brodsky, Joseph
...The perilous blue sun follows with its slant eyes
masts of the shuddered grove steaming up to capsize
in the frozen straits of Epiphany. February has fewer
days than the other months; therefore it's morecruel
than the rest. Dearest it's more sound
to wrap up our sailing round
the globe with habitual naval grace
moving your cot to the fireplace
where our dreadnought is going under
in great smoke. Only fire can grasp a winter!
Gol...Read more of this...
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