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Famous Striated Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Levine, Philip
...ake
a lunch break. Is she a woman?
Consider the arms as they press
the long brass tube against the buffer,
they are striated along the triceps,
the three heads of which clearly show.
Consider the fine dusting of dark down
above the upper lip, and the beads
of sweat that run from under the red
kerchief across the brow and are wiped
away with a blackening wrist band
in one odd motion a child might make
to say No! No! You must come closer
to find out, you must hang your ...Read more of this...



by Lowell, Amy
...w, others made
An ivory-white with disks of copper flecked.
Sprinkled and striped, tasselled, or keenest edged.
Striated, powdered, freckled, long or short.
They bloomed, and seemed strange wonder-moths new-fledged,
Born of the spectrum wedded to a flame.
The shade within the arbour made a port
To o'ertaxed eyes, its still, green twilight rest became.

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Her knitting-needles clicked and Christine talked,
This child matured to woman unaware,
The first time...Read more of this...

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