Famous Existential Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Existential poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous existential poems. These examples illustrate what a famous existential poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Bell, Marvin
...igher Good and the Greater Good contended
as sap on the bark of the maples, and even I
was enabled to witness the truly Existential where it loitered
famously in the shadows as if waiting for the moon.
All this I saw in the late afternoon in the company of no one.
And of course I went back to work the next morning. Like you,
like anyone, like the rumored angels of high office,
like the demon foremen, the bedeviled janitors, like you,
I returned to my job--but now...Read more of this...
by
Skenderija, Sasha
...e's always one of them around to remind me
of important things about myself
when I sink or soar too high
in my petty existential delirium.
Some of them had nearly given up on themselves
and on me: they fell in and grew together with their own lunacies pulling me and lifting me up
as a magnet picks up iron filings,
or a comb torn bits of paper.
People
that I love,
scattered along the meridians
and along their abysses:
among monsters of normalcy....Read more of this...
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