Famous Introspective Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Spiders

by Delmore Schwartz
 Is the spider a monster in miniature?
His web is a cruel stair, to be sure,
Designed artfully, cunningly placed,
A delicate trap, carefully spun
To bind the fly (innocent or unaware)
In a net as strong as a chain or a gun.

There are far more spiders than the man in the street
 supposes
And the philosopher-king imagines, let alone knows!
There are six hundred kinds...Read more of this...

Introspective Reflection

by Ogden Nash
 I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance
Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance....Read more of this...

To tell the Beauty would decrease

by Emily Dickinson
 To tell the Beauty would decrease
To state the Spell demean --
There is a syllable-less Sea
Of which it is the sign --
My will endeavors for its word
And fails, but entertains
A Rapture as of Legacies --
Of introspective Mines --...Read more of this...

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