Famous Signifying Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Signifying poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous signifying poems. These examples illustrate what a famous signifying poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...he weak pipe and the little drum
And see them dancing around the bonfire
The association of man and woman
In daunsinge, signifying matrimonie—
A dignified and commodiois sacrament.
Two and two, necessarye coniunction,
Holding eche other by the hand or the arm
Whiche betokeneth concorde. Round and round the fire
Leaping through the flames, or joined in circles,
Rustically solemn or in rustic laughter
Lifting heavy feet in clumsy shoes,
Earth feet, loam feet, lifted in ...Read more of this...
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Dickinson, Emily
...Her sovereign People
Nature knows as well
And is as fond of signifying
As if fallible --...Read more of this...
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Henley, William Ernest
...inevitable hand
Feels at your windpipe, fingers you in the lung,
Or flicks the clot well into the labouring heart:
Thus signifying unto old and young,
However hard of mouth or wild of whim,
'Tis time -- 'tis time by his ancient watch -- to part
From books and women and talk and drink and art.
And you go humbly after him
To a mean suburban lodging: on the way
To what or where
Not Death, who is old and very wise, can say:
And you -- how should you care
So long as, unreclaim...Read more of this...
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