Famous Hypnotised Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Four Quartets 2: East Coker

...an against a bank while a van passes,
And the deep lane insists on the direction
Into the village, in the electric heat
Hypnotised. In a warm haze the sultry light
Is absorbed, not refracted, by grey stone.
The dahlias sleep in the empty silence.
Wait for the early owl.

 In that open field
If you do not come too close, if you do not come too close,
On a summer midnight, you can hear the music
Of the weak pipe and the little drum
And see them dancing around the bonfire
The as...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)


Snake

...As cats bring their smiling
mouse-kills and hypnotised birds, 
slinking home under the light 
of a summer's morning
to offer the gift of a corpse,

you carry home the snake you thought 
was sunning itself on a rock
at the river's edge: 
sun-fretted, gracile,
it shimmies and sways in your hands 
like a muscle of light,
and you gather it up like a braid 
for my admiration. 

I can't shake the old wife's...Read more of this...
by Burnside, John

The Hypnotist

...A man once read with mind surprised 
Of the way that people were "hypnotised"; 
By waving hands you produced, forsooth, 
A kind of trance where men told the truth! 
His mind was filled with wond'ring doubt; 
He grabbed his hat and he started out, 
He walked the street and he made a "set" 
At the first half-dozen folk he met. 
He "tranced" them all, and without a joke 
'Twas much as follows the subjects spoke: 

First Man 
...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

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