Famous Uselessness Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Uselessness poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous uselessness poems. These examples illustrate what a famous uselessness poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...ing
fears when I may
cease to be me, all
lost or rather lumped
here in a retrograded,
dislocating, imploding
self, a uselessness
talks, even if finally to no one,
talks and talks....Read more of this...
by
Creeley, Robert
...r is probably meant.
{21b} Meeting place.
{22a} Kenning for “sword.” Hrunting is bewitched, laid under a spell of uselessness, along with all other swords.
{22b} This brown of swords, evidently meaning burnished, bright, continues to be a favorite adjective in the popular ballads.
{23a} After the killing of the monster and Grendel’s decapitation.
{23b} Hrothgar.
{23c} The blade slowly dissolves in blood-stained drops like icicles.
{23d} Spear.
{24a} Th...Read more of this...
by
Anonymous,
...you walk around with
Through this beautiful summer afternoon
To the right, to the left,
Here, there,
In the delirium of uselessness....Read more of this...
by
Desnos, Robert
...s why kids grow ever more stupid.
A yearbook's endpages, filled with promises
to stay in touch, stand as proof of the uselessness
of a teenager's promise. Not like I'm dying
for a letter from the class stoner
ten years on but...
Do you remember the way the girls
would call out "love you!"
conveniently leaving out the "I"
as if they didn't want to commit
to their own declarations.
I agree that the "I" is a pretty heavy concept
and hope you won't get uncomfortable
if I shou...Read more of this...
by
Berman, David
...The crowd at the ball game
is moved uniformly
by a spirit of uselessness
which delights them—
all the exciting detail
of the chase
and the escape, the error
the flash of genius—
all to no end save beauty
the eternal—
So in detail they, the crowd,
are beautiful
for this
to be warned against
saluted and defied—
It is alive, venomous
it smiles grimly
its words cut—
The flashy female with her
moth...Read more of this...
by
Williams, William Carlos (WCW)
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