Famous Entailing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The House Of Dust: Part 03: 10: Letter

...urse, you might have argued,—and you should have,—
That no such deep appearance of design
Could shape our world without entailing purpose:
For can design exist without a purpose?
Without conceiving mind? . . . We are like children
Who find, upon the sands, beside a sea,
Strange patterns drawn,—circles, arcs, ellipses,
Moulded in sand . . . Who put them there, we wonder?

Did someone draw them here before we came?
Or was it just the sea?—We pore upon them,
But find no answer—o...Read more of this...
by Aiken, Conrad


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