Poems about personal identity?

[jebus197]

Hi, can anyone recommend (or point directly to) any really good poignant poems about personal identity? The internet is full of really bad poetry and it's hard to find anything very useful. I need this for a specific purpose. Basically I have been asked to find poems on this topic for an English class I'm doing (I'm a mature student), so I can't afford to just use a bunch of badly written unpublished stuff I pulled off the internet.

[Sebas. Melmoth]

How about Poe's 'Alone'?

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw — I could not bring
My passions from a common spring —
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow — I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone —
And all I lov'd — I lov'd alone —
Then — in my childhood — in the dawn
Of a most stormy life — was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still —
From the torrent, or the fountain —
From the red cliff of the mountain —
From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold —
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by —
From the thunder, and the storm —
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view —

[hampusforev]

I'd be very intersted in this aswell, I guess Wordsworth is good, I don't have any particular examples as I haven't gotten around to reading much of Wordsworth. I personally don't like Poe that much, when it comes to poetry that is.