Famous Violent Death Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Violent Death poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous violent death poems. These examples illustrate what a famous violent death poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Seeger, Alan
...at from the wall
Looks on a world that quavers and complains.
Hopeless, abandoned, desolate, aghast,
On modes of violent death he meditates.
And the tower-clock tolls five, and he admits at last,
She will not come, the woman that he waits.
Through the stained rose the winter daylight dies,
And all the tide of anguish unrepressed
Swells in his throat and gathers in his eyes;
He kneels and bows his head upon his breast,
And feigns a prayer to hide his bu...Read more of this...
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