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Famous Inept Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Hardy, Thomas
..."I would know
By whom and when the All-Earth-gladdening Law
Of Peace, brought in by that Man Crucified,
Was ruled to be inept, and set aside?

And what of logic or of truth appears
In tacking 'Anno Domini' to the years?
Near twenty-hundred livened thus have hied,
But tarries yet the Cause for which He died."...Read more of this...



by Tessimond, A S J
...each other's flesh, its scent and texture;
Familiarize the sinews and the nerve-ends,
The hands, the hair - before the inept lips open.

Instead of which we are resonant, explicit.
Our words like windows intercept our meaning.
Our four eyes fence and flinch and awkwardly
Wince into shadow, slide oblique to ambush.
Hands stir, retract. The pulse is insulated.
Blood is turned inwards, lonely; skin unhappy ...
While always under all, but inte...Read more of this...

by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...his own: 
With him they are forever flown 
Past all our fond self-shadowings, 
Wherewith we cumber the Unknown 
As with inept Icarian wings. 

For we were not as other men: 
'Twas ours to soar and his to see. 
But we are coming down again, 
And we shall come down pleasantly; 
Nor shall we longer disagree 
On what it is to be sublime, 
But flourish in our pedigree 
And have one Titan at a time....Read more of this...

by Hardy, Thomas
...ked not, 
 Till range of his vision 
Has topped my intent, and found blemish 
 Throughout my domain. 

"He holds as inept his own soul-shell - 
 My deftest achievement - 
Contemns me for fitful inventions 
 Ill-timed and inane: 

"No more sees my sun as a Sanct-shape, 
 My moon as the Night-queen, 
My stars as august and sublime ones 
 That influences rain: 

"Reckons gross and ignoble my teaching, 
 Immoral my story, 
My love-lights a lure, that my species 
 May gather a...Read more of this...

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