A poem that uses symbols?

Question

I need a poem that uses symbols like a poem that talks about an american flag and an eagle to represent America or something like that.

Answer 1

Sorting

In the bacon-colored
cedar closet, the rack.

Cordovan wing-tips,
patent leather dress,
plain-toed Army brogues
stand upright as soldiers --
under their dust, wax shines.
House slippers,
left one scuffed to rags,
right almost new,
do the best they can.
Slip-ons slouch,
stained from garden
weeds and soil.
A box waits for most,
carefully stacked full
as though it
mattered. “Take some,”
she says, “you wear the same
size as your dad. The rest are just going
to Saint Pat’s. Take some.”
A pair of cordovans joins
a suitcase overfilled with socks
and casual sweaters.

Next we sort the guns.

--- J. Ellsworth Weaver

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Try that. Each of the shoes tells about the man, the father.

Answer 2

Try almost anything from the Romantic Time Period...but my personal favorite are the Transcendetalisits. Here's a website that has a lot of their works- they're a little complex but they definitly have symbolism in them.

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/thoreaupoems.html

Answer 3

"Scaffolding" by Seamus Heaney
Masons, when they start upon a building
are careful to test all the scaffolding.
Secure every ladder, tighten every joint,
make sure that planks don't slip at busy points.
And yet all of this comes down when the job is done,
leaving only walls of sure and solid stone.
So if, my dear, there ever seem to be
old bridges breaking between you and me,
Never fear, we may let the scaffolds fall,
confident that we have built our wall.