Famous Heroic Couplets Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Heroic Couplets poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous heroic couplets poems. These examples illustrate what a famous heroic couplets poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Plath, Sylvia
...a look to numb
Limbs: not a basilisk-blink, nor a double whammy,
But all the accumulated last grunts, groans,
Cries and heroic couplets concluding the million
Enacted tragedies on these blood-soaked boards,
And every private twinge a hissing asp
To petrify your eyes, and every village
Catastrophe a writhing length of cobra,
And the decline of empires the thick coil of a vast
Anacnoda.
Imagine: the world
Fisted to a foetus head, ravined, seamed
With suffering from concept...Read more of this...
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