Famous Self Defeating Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Self Defeating poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous self defeating poems. These examples illustrate what a famous self defeating poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...There is a girl you like so you tell her
your ***** is big, but that you cannot get yourself
to use it. Its demands are ridiculous, you say,
even self-defeating, but to be honored, somehow,
briefly, inconspicuously in the dark.
When she closes her eyes in horror,
you take it all back. You tell her you're almost
a girl yourself and can understand why she i...Read more of this...
by
Strand, Mark
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