Famous Corresponds Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Locations and Times

by Walt Whitman
 LOCATIONS and times—what is it in me that meets them all, whenever and wherever, and
 makes
 me at home? 
Forms, colors, densities, odors—what is it in me that corresponds with them?...Read more of this...

People Who Live

by Erica Jong
 People who live by the sea
understand eternity.
They copy the curves of the waves,
their hearts beat with the tides,
& the saltiness of their blood
corresponds with the sea.

They know that the house of flesh
is only a sandcastle
built on the shore,
that skin breaks
under the waves
like sand under the soles
of the first walker on the beach
when the tide recedes.

Each of us walks there...Read more of this...

Tulips

by Sylvia Plath
 The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here.
Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in
I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly
As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands.
I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.
I have given my name and my day-clothes up to the nurses
And my history to the...Read more of this...

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