Famous Displacing Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Displacing poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous displacing poems. These examples illustrate what a famous displacing poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Lindsay, Vachel
...alled from the shed
"If men will not laugh, make them wish they were dead."
But arch were your thoughts, all malice displacing,
Though the horse-killers came, with snake-whips advancing.
You bantered and cantered away your last chance.
And they scourged you, with Hell in their speech and their faces,
O broncho that would not be broken of dancing.
"Nobody cares for you," rattled the crows,
As you dragged the whole reaper, next day, down the rows.
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