Famous Valueless Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Valueless poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous valueless poems. These examples illustrate what a famous valueless poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...g quite necessary
To the functioning of the whole: if the job is fumbled
And a vital piece mislaid
The machine is quite valueless,
The workers will not be paid.
It is just the same when constructing a sentence
But here we must be very careful
And lay stress on the extreme importance
Of defining our terms: nothing is as simple
As it seems at first regard.
"Sentence" might well mean to you
The amorous rope or twelve years" hard.
No, by "sentence" we mean, quite simply, words
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by
Scannell, Vernon
...dent,
mother earth’s children,
their living and loving,
their delight in being
not joy but chemistry,
stimulus, reflex,
valueless, meaningless,
while to our machines
we impute intelligence,
in computers and robots
we store information
and call it knowledge,
we seek guidance
by dialling numbers,
pressing buttons,
throwing switches,
in place of family
our companions are shadows,
cast on a screen,
bodiless voices, fleshless faces,
where was the Garden
a Disney-land
of virtual r...Read more of this...
by
Raine, Kathleen
...
One lacks direct instinct, because one wakes
Afloat on movement that divides and breaks.
One joins the movement in a valueless world,
Crossing it, till, both hurler and the hurled,
One moves as well, always toward, toward.
A minute holds them, who have come to go:
The self-denied, astride the created will.
They burst away; the towns they travel through
Are home for neither birds nor holiness,
For birds and saints complete their purposes.
At worse, one is in motion;...Read more of this...
by
Gunn, Thom
...t for, risking bloody
death—loved
by me!
So loved! O you banner leading the day, with stars brought from the night!
Valueless, object of eyes, over all and demanding all—(absolute owner of ALL)—O
banner and
pennant!
I too leave the rest—great as it is, it is nothing—houses, machines are
nothing—I see
them not;
I see but you, O warlike pennant! O banner so broad, with stripes, I sing you only,
Flapping up there in the wind....Read more of this...
by
Whitman, Walt
...ecious store,(Whose bright possession we so fondly hail)To thee as burthens valueless appear:Thy beauty's excellence—(none viewed before)Thy soul had wearied—but thou lov'st the veil,That shrine of purity adorneth here. Wollaston....Read more of this...
by
Petrarch, Francesco
...s bore you?
Well, don't forget that others sat before you
who later sat on people. Keep your head!
Your science will be valueless, you'll find
And learning will be sterile, if inviting
Unless you pledge your intellect to fighting
Against all enemies of all mankind.
Never forget that men like you got hurt
That you might sit here, not the other lot.
And now don't shut your eyes, and don't desert
But learn to learn, and try to learn for what....Read more of this...
by
Brecht, Bertolt
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