Contemporary poets are often observed to use foregrounding to appeal their readers and to give their newly-born works their distinctive and unusual identity. Foregrounding is the professional sureness and furtive element that poets resort to attain their purposes. With a literary consciousness and sensibility peculiar to the modernist school of poets, foregrounding is the indispensable characteristic of contemporary poems. Thus, this paper tends to examine various linguistic techniques exploited to highlight foregrounded deviations in some contemporary poems. The paper utilizes five levels of foregrounded deviations: graphological, phonological, lexical, syntactic, and semantic as suggested by Gibbons and Whiteley (2018). The paper concludes that selected poems foreground their themes by resorting to at least one of the five mentioned levels. Moreover, foregrounding in each poem crystalizes the poem's theme and give rise to strikingness and inducement: It enhances defamiliarization which evokes influence leading to ‘refamiliarizing’ informative exertions.