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Famous Preoccupation Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Nin, Anais
...the stairs and entering the room of my heart like a sacred Visitor. That state of this room was a subject of great preoccupation for me. . . At the ages of nine, ten, eleven, I believe I approximated sainthood. And then, at sixteen, resentful of controls, disillusioned with a God who had not granted my prayers (the return of my father), who performed no miracles, who left me fatherless in a strange country, I rejected all Catholicism with exaggeration.Read more of this...



by Hardy, Thomas
...her presence then 
 With scarce an answering word. 

She met me, and but barely took 
 My proffered warm embrace; 
Preoccupation weighed her look, 
 And hardened her sweet face. 

"To-morrow--could you--would you call? 
 Make brief your present stay? 
My child is ill--my one, my all! - 
 And can't be left to-day." 

And then she turns, and gives commands 
 As I were out of sound, 
Or were no more to her and hers 
 Than any neighbour round . . . 

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by Murray, Les
...low as the moon 

and slid inside a CAT-scan wheel 
in a hospital where I met no one 
so much was my liver now my dire 
preoccupation. I was sped down a road. 

of treetops and fishing-rod lightpoles 
towards the three persons of God 
and the three persons of John Hunter 
Hospital. Who said We might lose this one. 

Twenty days or to the heat-death 
of the Universe have the same duration: 
vaguely half a hour. I awoke 
giggling over a joke 

about Paul Kru...Read more of this...

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