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Famous Complicating Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...discover I,
in body find the sky.

Sleep in the dream as one,
wake to the others there found.


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Emptying out
each complicating part,

each little twist of mind inside,
each clenched fist,

each locked, particularizing thought,
forgotten, emptying out.


23)

What did it feel like
to be one at a time --

to be caught in a mind
in the body you'd found

in yourself alone --
in each other one?


24)

Broken hearts, a curious round of echoes --
and there behind them the old ...Read more of this...
by Creeley, Robert



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The sweat of his efforts a rain
Tugging the world to fruit.
The bees found him out,
Molding onto his lips like lies,
Complicating his features.

They thought death was worth it, but I
Have a self to recover, a queen.
Is she dead, is she sleeping?
Where has she been,
With her lion-red body, her wings of glass?

Now she is flying
More terrible than she ever was, red
Scar in the sky, red comet
Over the engine that killed her ----
The mausoleum, the wax house....Read more of this...
by Plath, Sylvia

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