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Famous Disaffected Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...g like saxophones. And palm for palm,
Madame, we are where we began. Allow,
Therefore, that in the planetary scene
Your disaffected flagellants, well-stuffed,
Smacking their muzzy bellies in parade,
Proud of such novelties of the sublime,
Such tink and tank and tunk-a-tunk-tunk,
May, merely may, madame, whip from themselves
A jovial hullabaloo among the spheres.
This will make widows wince. But fictive things
Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince....Read more of this...
by Stevens, Wallace



...ike saxophones. And palm for palm,
Madame, we are where we began. Allow,
Therefore, that in the planetary scene
Your disaffected flagellants, well-stuffed,
Smacking their muzzy bellies in parade,
Proud of such novelties of the sublime,
Such tink and tank and tunk-a-tunk-tunk,
May, merely may, madame, whip from themselves
A jovial hullabaloo among the spheres.
This will make widows wince. But fictive things
Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.

...Read more of this...
by Stevens, Wallace
...an embers, 
Having covered thus a treasure that would last him for a while.
There were many by the presence of the many disaffected, 
Whose exemption was included in the weight that others bore: 
There were seekers after darkness in the Valley of the Shadow, 
And they alone were there to find what they were looking for. 

So they were, and so they are; and as they came are coming others,
And among them are the fearless and the meek and the unborn; 
And a question that has hel...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry