Famous Parenthetical Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Parenthetical poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous parenthetical poems. These examples illustrate what a famous parenthetical poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Walcott, Derek
...uscating façades of cathedrals
from Santiago to Caracas, where penitential archbishops
washed the feet of paupers (a parenthetical moment
that made the Caribbean a baptismal font,
turned butterflies to stone, and whitened like doves
the buzzards circling municipal garbage),
the Caribbean was borne like an elliptical basin
in the hands of acolytes, and a people were absolved
of a history which they did not commit;
the slave pardoned his whip, and the dispossessed
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