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Famous Nightmarish Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Mayakovsky, Vladimir
...iry splash of rockets 
gliding with Mephistopheles on the celestial parquet! 
I know ¨C 
a nail in my boot 
is more nightmarish than Goethe¡¯s fantasy! 

I, 
the most golden-mouthed, 
whose every word 
gives a new birthday to the soul, 
gives a name-day to the body, 
I adjure you: 
the minutest living speck 
is worth more than what I¡¯ll do or did! 

Listen! 
It is today¡¯s brazen-lipped Zarathustra 
who preaches, 
dashing about and groaning! 
We, 
our fac...Read more of this...



by Thomas, Dylan
...
 Strait in the mazed bed
She deludes the heaven-proof house with entering clouds

Yet she deludes with walking the nightmarish room,
 At large as the dead,
Or rides the imagined oceans of the male wards.

 She has come possessed
Who admits the delusive light through the bouncing wall,
 Possessed by the skies

She sleeps in the narrow trough yet she walks the dust
 Yet raves at her will
On the madhouse boards worn thin by my walking tears.

And taken by light in h...Read more of this...

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