The Best Poems about Seeing and Vision

Selected by Dr Oliver Tearle

Poetry often focuses on the sense of sight, and most ‘images’ in poetry are visual images. Some poets, though, have taken this focus on sight one stage further and actually explored what it means to see, and to experience ‘visions’ of various kinds. Below we introduce ten of the greatest poems about sight, and ‘vision’ in its various guises.

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