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Famous Recalcitrant Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Tebb, Barry
...er envelopes

Mutually exchanged. I open your missives

Like undressing a girl in my teens

Undoing the flap like a recalcitrant

Bra strap, the letters stiff as nipples

While I stroke the creviced folds

Of amber and mauve and lick

As I stick stamps like the ********

Of a reluctant virgin, urgent for

Defloration and the pulse of ******....Read more of this...



by Kizer, Carolyn
...n be a bore.

At this, perhaps our final interview,
Still luminous with your passion to instruct,
You speak to that recalcitrant pupil who
Inhaled the chalk-dust of your rhetoric.
I nod, I sip my wine, I praise your view,
Grateful, my dear, that I escaped from you....Read more of this...

by Williams, C K
...y and harrow-
ingly dangerous.
The ladders flex and quiver, things skid from the edge, the materials are 
bulky and recalcitrant.
When the rusty, antique nails are levered out, their heads pull off; the 
underroofing crumbles.
Even the battered little furnace, roaring along as patient as a donkey, 
chokes and clogs,
a dense, malignant smoke shoots up, and someone has to fiddle with a 
cock, then hammer it,
before the gush and stench will deintensify, the dark, Dan...Read more of this...

by Tessimond, A S J
...Minor, absurd preserves,
The shell's end-curves,
A document kept at the back of a drawer,
A tin hidden under the floor,
Recalcitrant prides and hesitations:
To pile them carefully in a desparate oblation
And say to you "quickly! turn them
Once over and burn them".

Now I (no communist, heaven knows!
Who have kept as my dearest right to close
My tenth door after I've opened nine to the world,
To unfold nine sepals holding one hard-furled)
Shall - or shall try to - offer to...Read more of this...

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