I need concrete poems by famous poets to analyze and give as examples. I have found examples on the Internet written by students, etc, but I am looking for famous examples or famous poets. I am not merely looking for "cat" reapeated over and over in the shape of a cat, etc but an actual poem about what it is describing, (wtih imagery, etc.) put into the form of the object. Any examples, poem titles and authors, recommended books, Internet links, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Joy
Here you go:
[writesofman.com] Click on "A Bridge Too Far"
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Les
Post Edited (01-08-05 14:54)
And the oldest ones of all?:
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I also remember seeing an amazing one by (I think) an Andrew Weiman, titled 'DNA Letter', where the author wrote a letter to his lover patterned with an actual string of DNA with the various beginning and ending letters on the individutal lines matching protein identifiers, such as A and G, etc.
No copy to be found on the internet though, sigh. Probably still under copyright in any case.
I am also looking for good concrete poems that are poems, not repeated words. I teach poetry workshops. If you find something, please e-mail to me and I will do the same.
Thanks,
Carine
Hey I'm Laura, i don't know if these would help you, but i decided to give u two incase it was the wrong thing, i hope its the right thing and i hope u can find good use from them.
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Poem lyrics of Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind by Shakespeare.
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho! the holly!
This life is most jolly.
Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
Thou dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As friend remember'd not.
Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho! the holly!
This life is most jolly.
Dover Beach
Poem lyrics of Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold.
The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the {AE}gean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night
hope these helped u!
from Laura.