Famous Decapitation Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Decapitation poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous decapitation poems. These examples illustrate what a famous decapitation poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...t, continues to be a favorite adjective in the popular ballads.
{23a} After the killing of the monster and Grendel’s decapitation.
{23b} Hrothgar.
{23c} The blade slowly dissolves in blood-stained drops like icicles.
{23d} Spear.
{24a} That is, “whoever has as wide authority as I have and can remember so far back so many instances of heroism, may well say, as I say, that no better hero ever lived than Beowulf.”
{25a} That is, he is now undefended by conscien...Read more of this...
by
Anonymous,
...ding from nothing;
Stirs up an old illusion of grandeur
By tickling the instinct of heads to be
Absolute and to try decapitation
And to play truant from the body bush;
But too happy and beautiful for those sorts
Of head (homekeeping heads are happiest)
Discovers maybe thirty unwidowed years
Of not dishonoring the faithful stem;
Is nameless and has authored for the evil
Historian headhunters neither book
Nor state and is therefore distinct from tart
Heads with c...Read more of this...
by
Ransom, John Crowe
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