Famous Denounces Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The New Poetry Handbook

by Mark Strand
 1 If a man understands a poem,
 he shall have troubles.

2 If a man lives with a poem,
 he shall die lonely.

3 If a man lives with two poems,
 he shall be unfaithful to one.

4 If a man conceives of a poem,
 he shall have one less child.

5 If a man conceives of two poems,
 he shall have two...Read more of this...

Poem With Refrains

by Robert Pinsky
 The opening scene. The yellow, coal-fed fog
Uncurling over the tainted city river,
A young girl rowing and her anxious father
Scavenging for corpses. Funeral meats. The clever
Abandoned orphan. The great athletic killer
Sulking in his tent. As though all stories began
With someone dying.

 When her mother died,
My mother refused to attend the funeral--
In fact, she sulked in her tent all through the...Read more of this...

Supernatural Songs

by William Butler Yeats
 I. Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn

Because you have found me in the pitch-dark night
With open book you ask me what I do.
Mark and digest my tale, carry it afar
To those that never saw this tonsured head
Nor heard this voice that ninety years have cracked.
Of Baile and Aillinn you need not speak,
All know their tale, all know...Read more of this...

Wide Spaces

by Henry Lawson
 When the man I was denounces all the things that I was not, 
When the true souls stand like granite, while the souls of liars not – 
When the quids I gave are counted, and the trays I cadged forgot; 

Shall my spirit see the country that it wrote for once again? 
Shall it see the old selections, and...Read more of this...

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