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Famous Uncoiling Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Hikmet, Nazim
...trangely enough, I wasn't afraid
as I patted the aluminum rump of my plane
 and stepped down on the roof...
Uncoiling the fifty-fathom-long rope wound around my waist,
I lowered it outside Gioconda's window
like a vertical bridge between heaven and hell.
I blew my shrill whistle three times.
And I got an immediate response
to those three shrill whistles.
Gioconda threw open her window.
This poor farmer's daughter
 done up as the Virgin Mary
chucked...Read more of this...



by Henley, William Ernest
...f of a material dark,
Wherein the lamplight, scattered and sick and pale,
Shows like the leper's living blotch of bale:
Uncoiling monstrous into street on street
Paven with perils, teeming with mischance,
Where man and beast go blindfold and in dread,
Working with oaths and threats and faltering feet
Somewhither in the hideousness ahead;
Working through wicked airs and deadly dews
That make the laden robber grin askance
At the good places in his black romance,
And the poor, l...Read more of this...

by Hugo, Victor
...bring? 
 Oh, horror! from its wondrous centre, lo! 
 A furious stream of lightning seems to flow 
 Like a long snake uncoiling its fell ring. 
 
 II. 
 
 The sea! naught but the sea! waves on all sides! 
 Vainly the sea-bird would outstrip these tides! 
 Naught but an endless ebb and flow! 
 Wave upon wave advancing, then controlled 
 Beneath the depths a stream the eyes behold 
 Rolling in the involved abyss below! 
 
 Whilst here and there great fishes in the ...Read more of this...

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