Famous Desiccation Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Desiccation poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous desiccation poems. These examples illustrate what a famous desiccation poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...solitude,
World not world, but that which is not world,
Internal darkness, deprivation
And destitution of all property,
Desiccation of the world of sense,
Evacuation of the world of fancy,
Inoperancy of the world of spirit;
This is the one way, and the other
Is the same, not in movement
But abstention from movement; while the world moves
In appetency, on its metalled ways
Of time past and time future.
IV
Time and the bell have buried the day,
The black cloud carries the su...Read more of this...
by
Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
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