Famous Questioners Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Comedian As The Letter C

...d seeds 
537 Hinting incredible hues, four self-same lights 
538 That spread chromatics in hilarious dark, 
539 Four questioners and four sure answerers. 

540 Crispin concocted doctrine from the rout. 
541 The world, a turnip once so readily plucked, 
542 Sacked up and carried overseas, daubed out 
543 Of its ancient purple, pruned to the fertile main, 
544 And sown again by the stiffest realist, 
545 Came reproduced in purple, family font, 
546 The same insoluble...Read more of this...
by Stevens, Wallace


The Marriage Of Geraint

...
Not turning round, nor looking at him, said: 
'Friend, he that labours for the sparrow-hawk 
Has little time for idle questioners.' 
Whereat Geraint flashed into sudden spleen: 
'A thousand pips eat up your sparrow-hawk! 
****, wrens, and all winged nothings peck him dead! 
Ye think the rustic cackle of your bourg 
The murmur of the world! What is it to me? 
O wretched set of sparrows, one and all, 
Who pipe of nothing but of sparrow-hawks! 
Speak, if ye be not like the res...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

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