Famous Retracted Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Retracted poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous retracted poems. These examples illustrate what a famous retracted poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Whitman, Walt
...hich by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must
be a
failure for us,
And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.
The light and shade, the curious sense of body and identity, the greed that with perfect
complaisance devours all things, the endless pride and out-stretching of man, unspeakable
joys
and
sorrows,
The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees, and the wonders that fill each minute
of
time
forever,
What...Read more of this...
by
Moore, Marianne
...y
confronted by four cats, he sleeps his time away--
the detached first claw on the foreleg corresponding
to the thumb, retracted to its tip; the small tuft of fronds
or katydid-legs above each eye numbering all units
in each group; the shadbones regularly set about the mouth
to droop or rise in unison like porcupine-quills.
He lets himself be flattened out by gravity,
as seaweed is tamed and weakened by the sun,
compelled when extended, to lie stationary.
Sleep is th...Read more of this...
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