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Hey /lit/, I need your help with choosing a poem written since 1900 for an English assignment. The assignment's easy, I just don't know of any good poems written since 1900. Nothing too wordy; preferably less than 300 words.

>> No.1768712

Theme for English B
and find another on your own bitch

>> No.1768715

Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs
Always wrong to the light, so never seeing
Deeper down in the well than where the water
Gives me back in a shining surface picture
Me myself in the summer heaven godlike
Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs.
Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb,
I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture,
Through the picture, a something white, uncertain,
Something more of the depths--and then I lost it.
Water came to rebuke the too clear water.
One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a ripple
Shook whatever it was lay there at bottom,
Blurred it, blotted it out. What was that whiteness?
Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something.

>> No.1768719

"The Second Coming" by Yeats is a pretty safe bet. Any Yeats poem, really.

Not that there aren't a ridiculous number of choices. You gave us a century to work with here.

>> No.1768724

>>1768719
Well, give me your absolute favourite!

>> No.1768745

>>1768724
"Sailing to Byzantium" by Yeats and "They Feed They Lion" by Levine. My two favorites. Both pretty short too.

>> No.1768749

Philip Larkin: An Arundel Tomb. Hell of a poem. Or, if you want to troll your teacher, choose This Be The Verse. Although there's much less to say about the latter.

>> No.1768752

>>1768749

My favorite Larkin is Next, Please. Good flow and such depressing imagery. I love that poem.

>> No.1768756
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1768756

the love song of j alfred prufrock
sooo good you'll love it!

>> No.1768762

>>1768752
Oooooh, that was good. Dat last line.

>> No.1768771

Nothing too wordy, eh? Go go Ezra Pound!

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

>> No.1768776

>>1768771
heh, that makes me think of William Carlos Williams' "This is Just To Say"

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

I think it's kind of awful and clever at the same time

>> No.1768777

Thank you very much, good people of /lit/!

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1769533

The Waste Land

>> No.1771564

bump from page 15's bosom

>> No.1771570

>>1768776
I think it's extremely awful, but what the fuck do I know, I'm just Deep&Edgy??

>> No.1771572

>>1771564
What's a bosom?

>> No.1771577

The Hollow Men

>> No.1771590

Fire and Ice? Just go with something by Frost.
Or P.I.M.P. by 50 Cent

>> No.1771591

Lots of short stuff here
http://www.poemhunter.com/spike-milligan/