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Famous Two Times Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Plath, Sylvia
...am so stupidly happy,
My Wellingtons
Squelching and squelching through the beautiful red.

This is my property.
Two times a day
I pace it, sniffing
The barbarous holly with its viridian
Scallops, pure iron,

And the wall of the odd corpses.
I love them.
I love them like history.
The apples are golden,
Imagine it ----

My seventy trees
Holding their gold-ruddy balls
In a thick gray death-soup,
Their million
Gold leaves metal and breathless.

O love, O c...Read more of this...



by Levine, Philip
...nt of all, 
falling all night 

into the bruised river 
you slept beside, falling 

into the glass of water 
you filled two times for breakfast 

and the eyes you turned upward 
to see what time it was. 

Air that stained everything 
with its millions of small deaths, 

that turned all five fingers 
to grease or black ink or ashes....Read more of this...

by Sexton, Anne
...e medical hypothesis
that explained my brain will never be as true as these
struck leaves letting go.

I, who chose two times
to kill myself, had said your nickname
the mewling mouths when you first came;
until a fever rattled
in your throat and I moved like a pantomine
above your head. Ugly angels spoke to me. The blame,
I heard them say, was mine. They tattled
like green witches in my head, letting doom
leak like a broken faucet;
as if doom had flooded my be...Read more of this...

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