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Famous Resuscitate Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...For three years, out of key with his time,
He strove to resuscitate the dead art
Of poetry; to maintain "the sublime"
In the old sense. Wrong from the start--

No, hardly, but seeing he had been born
In a half savage country, out of date;
Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn;
Capaneus; trout for factitious bait;

Idmen gar toi panth, hos eni troie
Caught in the unstopped ear;
Giving the rocks small l...Read more of this...
by Pound, Ezra



...For three years, out of key with his time,
He strove to resuscitate the dead art
Of poetry; to maintain "the sublime"
In the old scene.Wrong from the start--

No, hardly, but seeing he had been born
In a half-savage country, out of date;
Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn;
Capaneus; trout for factitious bait;

[idmen gar toi pant, hos eni Troiei]
Caught in the unstopped ear;
Giving the rocks small ...Read more of this...
by Pound, Ezra
...mesianus Es. IV. 

E. P. Ode pour l'élection de son sépulchre 

For three years, out of key with his time,
He strove to resuscitate the dead art
Of poetry; to maintain "the sublime"
In the old sense. Wrong from the start --

No, hardly, but, seeing he had been born
In a half savage country, out of date;
Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn;
Capaneus; trout for factitious bait:

"Idmen gar toi panth, os eni Troie
Caught in the unstopped ear;
Giving the rocks small...Read more of this...
by Pound, Ezra
...he heads are bared of their
 fire-caps; 
The kneeling crowd fades with the light of the torches. 

Distant and dead resuscitate;
They show as the dial or move as the hands of me—I am the clock myself. 

I am an old artillerist—I tell of my fort’s bombardment; 
I am there again. 

Again the long roll of the drummers; 
Again the attacking cannon, mortars;
Again, to my listening ears, the cannon responsive. 

I take part—I see and hear the whole; 
The cries, curse...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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