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Famous Incoherent Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...what it is 
To be in hell. I hope you will not go there. 
All through that slow, long, desolating twilight 
Of incoherent certainties, I waited; 
Never alone—never to be alone;
And while the night grew down upon me there, 
I thought of old Prometheus in the story 
That I had read at school, and saw mankind 
All huddled into clusters in the dark, 
Calling to God for light. There was a light
Coming for them, but there was none for me 
Until a shapeless remnant of a...Read more of this...



by Montgomery, Lucy Maud
...ck alley 
dying in rags and dirt, 
he is beyond all question a genius. 

But above all things, 
to deftly throw the incoherent ravings of insanity into verse 
and then rush off and get booming drunk, 
is the surest of all the different signs 
of genius....Read more of this...

by Byron, George (Lord)
...,
That there was something in her air
Which would not doom me to despair; 
And on the thought my words broke forth,
All incoherent as they were -
Their eloquence was little worth,
But yet she listened - 'tis enough -
Who listens once will listen twice;
Her heart, be sure, is not of ice, 
And one refusal no rebuff.

VII

I loved, and was beloved again -
They tell me, Sire, you never knew 
Those gentle frailties; if 'tis true,
I shorten all my joy or pain;
To you 'twould se...Read more of this...

by McGonagall, William Topaz
...home again whatever did betide,
And he asked forgiveness of his Creator by the river side. 

And as he knelt, a few incoherent words escaped him,
And the thought of drowning himself he considered a great sin,
And the more he thought of it, he felt his flesh creep,
But in a few minutes he fell fast asleep. 

And he slept soundly, for the stillness wasn't broke,
And the day was beginning to dawn before he awoke;
Then suddenly he started up as if in a fright,
And he saw ...Read more of this...

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