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Famous Determining Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...s to be disturbed.

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July 11 ... Oaks: the organization of this tree is difficult. Speaking generally 
no doubt the determining planes are concentric, a system of brief contiguous and 
continuous tangents, whereas those of the cedar wd. roughly be called horizontals 
and those of the beech radiating but modified by droop and by a screw-set towards 
jutting points. But beyond this since the normal growth of the boughs is radiating 
there is a system of spoke-wise clubs of ...Read more of this...
by Graham, Jorie



...come to see at last with others, 
And then to say with others, who say more, 
That you are groping on a phantom trail 
Determining a dusky way to nowhere;
That errors unconfessed and obstinate 
Have teemed and cankered in you for so long 
That even your eyes are sick, and you see light 
Only because you dare not see the dark 
That is around you and ahead of you.
She might have come, by ruinous estimation 
Of old applause and outworn vanities, 
To clothe you over in a shroud ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...than we to lead us, 
That will not let us wait. 
And we go on with none to tell us whether 
Or not we’ve each a tether 
Determining how fast or how far we go;
And it is well, since we must go together, 
That we are not to know. 

If the old wrong and all its injured glamour 
Haunts you by day and gives your night no peace, 
You may as well, agreeably and serenely,
Give the new wrong its lease; 
For should you nourish a too fervid yearning 
For what is not returning, 
The vici...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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