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Famous Intonation Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Jarrell, Randall
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From the tar of the blazing square
The eyes shift, in their taciturn
And unavowing, unavailable sorrow.
Yet the intonation of a name confesses
Some secrets that they never meant
To let out to a soul; and what words would not dim
The bowed and weathered heads above the denim
Or the once-too-often washed wash dresses?
They are subdued to their own element.
One day
The red, clay face
Is lowered to the naked clay;
After some words, the body is forsaken
The shadows len...Read more of this...



by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...limber, 
And ta'en my fiddle to the gate, 
And fiddled in the timber! 

'Tis said he had a tuneful tongue, 
Such happy intonation, 
Wherever he sat down and sung 
He left a small plantation; 
Wherever in a lonely grove 
He set up his forlorn pipes, 
The gouty oak began to move, 
And flounder into hornpipes. 

The mountain stirr'd its bushy crown, 
And, as tradition teaches, 
Young ashes pirouetted down 
Coquetting with young beeches; 
And briony-vine and ivy-wreath 
Ran ...Read more of this...

by Rilke, Rainer Maria
...her it is
my heart that cries or my bowels.

Do you recognize these songs? You never sang them,
not quite with this intonation.
For you every morning brings its new light
warm through your open windows.
And you have the feeling from face to face
that tempts you to be indulgent....Read more of this...

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