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Famous Trawling Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Service, Robert William
...chance you hear the silence calling,
 The frozen music of star-yearning heights,
Or, dreaming, see the seines of silver trawling
 Across the sky's abyss on vasty nights,
You may recall that sweep of savage splendor,
 That land that measures each man at his worth,
And feel in memory, half fierce, half tender,
 The brotherhood of men that know the North....Read more of this...



by Plath, Sylvia
...kulled,
Gilled like a fish. A common-sense
Thumbs-down on the dodo's mode.
Wrapped up in yourself like a spool,
Trawling your dark, as owls do.
Mute as a turnip from the Fourth
Of July to All Fools' Day,
O high-riser, my little loaf.

Vague as fog and looked for like mail.
Farther off than Australia.
Bent-backed Atlas, our traveled prawn.
Snug as a bud and at home
Like a sprat in a pickle jug.
A creel of eels, all ripples.
Jumpy as a Mexica...Read more of this...

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