Famous Third Person Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Third Person poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous third person poems. These examples illustrate what a famous third person poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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McHugh, you'll be the death of me -- each self and second studied!
Addressing you like this, I'm halfway to the
third person....Read more of this...
by
McHugh, Heather
...spring, like an industrious virgin
To scour the creaming crests
As the moon, for its ivory powders, scours the sea.
A third person is watching.
He has nothing to do with the bee-seller or with me.
Now he is gone
In eight great bounds, a great scapegoat.
Here is his slipper, here is another,
And here the square of white linen
He wore instead of a hat.
He was sweet,
The sweat of his efforts a rain
Tugging the world to fruit.
The bees found him out,
Molding onto his lips lik...Read more of this...
by
Plath, Sylvia
...er
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry.
I who don't know the
secret wrote
the line. They
told me
(through a third person)
they had found it
but not what it was
not even
what line it was. No doubt
by now, more than a week
later, they have forgotten
the secret,
the line, the name of
the poem. I love them
for finding what
I can't find,
and for loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it
so that
a thousand times, till death
finds them, they may
discover ...Read more of this...
by
Levertov, Denise
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