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Famous Fatal Flaw Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...all-unearthly, untaught strain! He saw 
The plain, brown warbler, unabashed. "Not mine" 
(He cried) "the error of this fatal flaw. 
No bird is this, it soars beyond my line, 
Were it a bird, 'twould answer to my law."...Read more of this...
by Lazarus, Emma



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Misread early Freud through a crooked lens

And for a year turned every seminar to war

To make him see his vision’s fatal flaw.

I poured over cabinets of case histories,

Tried living here and there and met an amah,

Teaching her Auden and Empson. Her tears mingled

With my own at our last hurried meeting

In a crowded tea room, teaching her Klein.

I sat through many a summer watching the children play,

Feeling a hermit’s contentment in his cave,

Contemplating Plato a...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

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