Famous Unwelcoming Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Gravelly Run

by A R Ammons
 I don't know somehow it seems sufficient
to see and hear whatever coming and going is,
losing the self to the victory
 of stones and trees,
of bending sandpit lakes, crescent
round groves of dwarf pine:

for it is not so much to know the self
as to know it as it is known
 by galaxy and cedar cone,
as if birth had never found it
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