Famous Indicating Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Indicating poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous indicating poems. These examples illustrate what a famous indicating poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Far as South and West -- expanding --
Culminate -- in Rest --
And the Mountain to the Evening
Fit His Countenance --
Indicating, by no Muscle --
The Experience --...Read more of this...
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Dickinson, Emily
...cture (when it’s done)
And says, “What of it, Rembrandt, if you do?”
This incubus would seem to be a sort
Of chorus, indicating, for our good,
The silence of the few friends that are left:
“What of it, Rembrandt, even if you know?”
It says again; “and you don’t know for certain.
What if in fifty or a hundred years
They find you out? You may have gone meanwhile
So greatly to the dogs that you’ll not care
Much what they find. If this be all you are—
This unaccountable ...Read more of this...
by
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...sailing in and out;
Then over all, (aye! aye!) my little and lengthen’d pennant, shaped like a sword,
Runs swiftly up, indicating war and defiance—And now the halyards have rais’d
it,
Side of my banner broad and blue—side of my starry banner,
Discarding peace over all the sea and land.
BANNER AND PENNANT.
Yet louder, higher, stronger, bard! yet farther, wider cleave!
No longer let our children deem us riches and peace alone;
We may be terror and carnage, and are so now...Read more of this...
by
Whitman, Walt
...onship;
I will show what alone must finally compact These;
I believe These are to found their own ideal of manly love, indicating it in me;
I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were threatening to
consume me;
I will lift what has too long kept down those smouldering fires;
I will give them complete abandonment;
I will write the evangel-poem of comrades, and of love;
(For who but I should understand love, with all its sorrow and joy?
And who but I s...Read more of this...
by
Whitman, Walt
...owing most politely:
"What makes the roses bloom
Over the mossy tomb,
[They bow to each other — then give a pantomime indicating a great rose garden.]
Driving away the gloom
Ten thousand years?"
MEN'S LEADER:
King Solomon made answer to the lady,
Bowing most politely:
[They bow and confer. The Queen reserved, but taking cognizance. The King wooing with ornate gestures of respect, and courtly animation.]
"They bloom forever thinking of your beauty,
Your step so queenl...Read more of this...
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Lindsay, Vachel
...ers answered:
"Although the Gods are little troubled toward men, at the end of each period
A sign is declared in heaven
Indicating new times, new customs, a changed people; the Romans
Rule, and Etruria is finished;
A wise mariner will trim the sails to the wind."
I heard yesterday
So shrill and mournful a trumpet-blast,
It was hard to be wise.... You must eat change and endure; not be much troubled
For the people; they will have their happiness.
When the republic grows too ...Read more of this...
by
Jeffers, Robinson
...g,
The mask of an evil demon, decorated with gold lacquer.
Sympathetically I observe
The swollen veins of the forehead, indicating
What a strain it is to be evil....Read more of this...
by
Brecht, Bertolt
...of migrating ducks
Come off it much less neat.
In Saginaw, in Saginaw,
Bartenders think no ill;
But they've ways of indicating when
You are not acting well:
They throw you through the front plate glass
And then send you the bill.
The Morleys and the Burrows are
The aristocracy;
A likely thing for they're no worse
Than the likes of you or me,—
A picture window's one you can't
Raise up when you would pee.
In Shaginaw, in Shaginaw
I went to Shunday Shule;
The only th...Read more of this...
by
Roethke, Theodore
...compass’d around by a thick cloud of spirits,
Wandering, point to, or touch as I pass, or throw them loosely from me,
Indicating to each one what he shall have—giving something to each;
But what I drew from the water by the pond-side, that I reserve,
I will give of it—but only to them that love, as I myself am capable of loving....Read more of this...
by
Whitman, Walt
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