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Famous Defensiveness Poems by Famous Poets

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

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anything reversed?



 I look at my father:
as he drinks his way into garrulous, shaky
defensiveness, the debris of the past
is just debris--; whatever I reason, it is a desolation
to watch...

must I watch?
He will not change; he does not want to change;

every defeated gesture implies
the past is useless, irretrievable...
--I want to change: I want to stop fear's subtle

guidance of my life--; but, how can I do that
if I am still
afraid of i...Read more of this...
by Bidart, Frank



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