The Reader's Atlas
Poems About Traumain the open canon
- Indexed poems
- 477
- Indexed poets
- 0
- Short poems
- 36
Where to begin with trauma
Three ways in01 · Most-read entry
1492
by Emma Lazarus, 1883
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02 · Editor's pick
A Game of Chess
by T. S. Eliot, 1922
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03 · Counterpoint
An Open Boat
by Alfred Noyes, 1922
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§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
1492
Emma Lazarus1883PD - 02
A Game of Chess
T. S. Eliot1922Excerpt - 03
An Open Boat
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 04
Cuckoo Song
H. D.1924Excerpt - 05
Demeter
H. D.1921Excerpt - 06
Disabled
Wilfred Owen1917PD - 07
Fishers of Men
Alfred Noyes1907Excerpt - 08
For Bryher and Perdita
H. D.1925Excerpt - 09
Ghosts of the New World
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 10
Grass
Carl Sandburg1918Excerpt - 11
Home Burial
Robert Frost1914Excerpt - 12
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Ezra Pound1920Excerpt - 13
I Am the Grass
Carl Sandburg1918Excerpt - 14
Loss
H. D.1916Excerpt - 15
Mid-Day
H. D.1916Excerpt - 16
Namesakes
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 17
On the Western Front
Alfred Noyes1918Excerpt - 18
Peace
Alfred Noyes1918Excerpt - 19
Peace in a Palace
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 20
Phaedra
H. D.1921Excerpt
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Short poems about trauma
Twelve lines or fewer — a curated facet for the commute, the inbox, the lock screen. Hand-filtered for length, sequenced by canonical weight.
36
Under 12 lines