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Famous Stripped Down Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by García Lorca, Federico
...Before the stone. 
Before this body with broken reins. 
I want to know from them the way out 
for this captain stripped down by death. 

I want them to show me a lament like a river 
wich will have sweet mists and deep shores, 
to take the body of Ignacio where it looses itself 
without hearing the double planting of the bulls. 

Loses itself in the round bull ring of the moon 
which feigns in its youth a sad quiet bull, 
loses itself in the night without son...Read more of this...



by Masefield, John
...springy to a boxer's feet; 
At harvest hum the moon so bright 
Did shine on Wood Top for the fight. 

When Bill was stripped down to his bends 
I thought how long we two'd been friends, 
And in my mind, about that wire, 
I thought "He's right, I am a liar. 
As sure as skilly's made in prison 
The right to poach that copse is his'n. 
I'll have no luck tonight," thinks I. 
"I'm fighting to defend a lie. 
And this moonshiny evening's fun 
Is worse than aught ...Read more of this...

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