Famous Manifestation Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Death

by Dejan Stojanovic
Death is not death.
If birth is a manifestation of life, 
Death is another. 
So why bother with death? 
Why bother with death any more than with birth? 

Every thought about death
Takes a moment of life away. ...Read more of this...

Transit of the Gods

by Kathleen Raine
 Strange that the self’s continuum should outlast 
The Virgin, Aphrodite, and the Mourning Mother, 
All loves and griefs, successive deities 
That hold their kingdom in the human breast. 
Abandoned by the gods, woman with an ageing body 
That half remembers the Annunciation 
The passion and the travail and the grief 
That wore the mask of my humanity, 
I marvel...Read more of this...

Marriage

by Marianne Moore
 This institution,
perhaps one should say enterprise
out of respect for which
one says one need not change one's mind
about a thing one has believed in,
requiring public promises
of one's intention
to fulfill a private obligation:
I wonder what Adam and Eve
think of it by this time,
this firegilt steel
alive with goldenness;
how bright it shows --
"of circular traditions and impostures,
committing many spoils,"
requiring all one's criminal ingenuity
to...Read more of this...

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