Famous Demoralized Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Underground System

by Edna St. Vincent Millay
 Set the foot down with distrust upon the crust of the
 world—it is thin.
Moles are at work beneath us; they have tunneled the
 sub-soil
With separate chambers; which at an appointed knock
Could be as one, could intersect and interlock. We walk
 on the skin
Of life. No toil
Of rake or hoe, no lime, no phosphate, no rotation of
 crops, no irrigation...Read more of this...

Fawns Foster-Mother

by Robinson Jeffers
 The old woman sits on a bench before the door and quarrels
With her meagre pale demoralized daughter.
Once when I passed I found her alone, laughing in the sun
And saying that when she was first married
She lived in the old farmhouse up Garapatas Canyon.
(It is empty now, the roof has fallen
But the log walls hang on the stone foundation; the...Read more of this...

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