Famous Extrication Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Mental Cases

...
Batter of guns and shatter of flying muscles,
Carnage incomparable and human squander
Rucked too thick for these men's extrication.

Therefore still their eyeballs shrink tormented
Back into their brains, because on their sense
Sunlight seems a bloodsmear; night comes blood-black;
Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh
-- Thus their heads wear this hilarious, hideous,
Awful falseness of set-smiling corpses.
-- Thus their hands are plucking at each other;
Picking at...Read more of this...
by Owen, Wilfred


O Star of France

...g its course, 
So thee, O ship of France! 

Finish’d the days, the clouds dispell’d, 
The travail o’er, the long-sought extrication, 
When lo! reborn, high o’er the European world,
(In gladness, answering thence, as face afar to face, reflecting ours, Columbia,) 
Again thy star, O France—fair, lustrous star, 
In heavenly peace, clearer, more bright than ever, 
Shall beam immortal....Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Song of Myself

...

Less the reminders of properties told, my words; 
And more the reminders, they, of life untold, and of freedom and extrication, 
And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully
 equipt,
And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives, and them that plot and
 conspire. 

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Walt Whitman am I, a Kosmos, of mighty Manhattan the son, 
Turbulent, fleshy and sensual, eating, drinking and breeding; 
No sentimentalist—no stander above ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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