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Famous Determining(A) Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Determining(A) 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(a) poems. These examples illustrate what a famous determining(a) poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...I have put on my great coat it is cold.

It is an outer garment.

Coarse, woolen.

Of unknown origin.

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It has a fine inner lining but it is 
as an exterior that you see it — a grace.

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I have a coat I am wearing. It is a fine admixture.
The woman who threw the threads in the two directions
has made, skillfully, something dark-true,
as the evening ca...Read more of this...
by Graham, Jorie



...(AMSTERDAM, 1645)


And there you are again, now as you are. 
Observe yourself as you discern yourself 
In your discredited ascendency; 
Without your velvet or your feathers now, 
Commend your new condition to your fate,
And your conviction to the sieves of time. 
Meanwhile appraise yourself, Rembrandt van Ryn, 
Now as you are—formerly more or less 
Distin...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...You that in vain would front the coming order 
With eyes that meet forlornly what they must, 
And only with a furtive recognition 
See dust where there is dust,— 
Be sure you like it always in your faces,
Obscuring your best graces, 
Blinding your speech and sight, 
Before you seek again your dusty places 
Where the old wrong seems right. 

Longer ago than...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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