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Famous Mark Out Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Schwartz, Delmore
...o fete of June,
But in the daylight knowing our nothingness.

Let Freud and Marx be wedding guests indeed!
Let them mark out masks that face us there,
For of all anguish, weakness, loss and failure,
No form is cruel as self-deception, none
Shows day-by-day a bad dream long lived
And unbroken like the lies
We tell each other because we are rich or poor.
Though from the general guilt not free
We can keep honor by being poor.

The waste, the evil, the abomination
Is ...Read more of this...



by Dickey, James
...e blue-eye wink of the jug. Payton got us a beer and we sat 

All morning sat there with blood on our minds the red mark out 
In the harbor slowly failing us then the house groaned the rope 
Sprang out of the water splinters flew we leapt from our chairs 
And grabbed the rope hauled did nothing the house coming subtly 
Apart all around us underfoot boards beginning to sparkle like sand 
Pulling out the tarred poles we slept propped-up on leaning to sea 
As in land-wind cr...Read more of this...

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