Famous Irritant Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Irritant poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous irritant poems. These examples illustrate what a famous irritant poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...hink and have less to say.
And CANNOT you walk now? Bah! don't hop!
Stop!
Look at the owl, scarce seen, scarce heard,
O irritant, iterant, maddening bird!"...Read more of this...
by
Lanier, Sidney
...thinking of her
with painful heart,
this clench of inner flesh.
—Kakinomoto Hitomaro
from Manyoshu
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Praise the irritant, that genesis,
implanted within the soft
and malleable animal that bore you.
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Your brethren strung around my neck,
dangling from my earlobes.
The imperfections the jeweler slights, I praise.
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Artifact of a biological process,
why do we expect
symmetry from a grain of sand?
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Praise the oblong beauty
of you, solidified raindrops,
your stony q...Read more of this...
by
Geyer, Bernadette
...not be erased,
Or, save in incommunicable gleams
Too permanent for dreams,
Be found or known.
No tonic and ambitious irritant
Of increase or of want
Has made an otherwise insensate waste
Of ages overthrown
A ruthless, veiled, implacable foretaste
Of other ages that are still to be
Depleted and rewarded variously
Because a few, by fate’s economy,
Shall seem to move the world the way it goes;
No soft evangel of equality,
Safe-cradled in a communal repose
That huddle...Read more of this...
by
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
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