Famous Incompleteness Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Incompleteness poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous incompleteness poems. These examples illustrate what a famous incompleteness poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...for making it,
So much of joy for them, and all along
Be covering, like a scar, and while she smiled,
That hungering incompleteness and regret—
That passionate ache for something of her own,
For something of herself—she never knew.
She knew that she could seem to make them all
Believe there was no other part of her
Than her persistent happiness; but the why
And how she did not know. Still none of them
Could have a thought that she was living down—
Almost as if regret...Read more of this...
by
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...ne?
Mother, dead woman
Who I think permits me
to love women easily
this poem
is dedicated to where
we stopped, to the incompleteness
that was sufficient
and to how you buttoned up,
began doing the routine things
around the house....Read more of this...
by
Dunn, Stephen
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