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Famous 1930S Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous 1930S poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous 1930s poems. These examples illustrate what a famous 1930s poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...roes, cried all over the street, danced on broken wineglasses barefoot smashed phonograph records of nostalgic European 1930s German jazz finished the whiskey and threw up groaning into the bloody toilet, moans in their ears and the blast of colossal steamwhistles,
who barreled down the highways of the past journeying to each other’s hotrod-Golgotha jail-solitude watch or Birmingham jazz incarnation,
who drove crosscountry seventytwo hours to find out if I had a vision or y...Read more of this...
by Ginsberg, Allen



...e of a young man

walking out on a cold morning to a crapper that had the das-

sic half-moon cut above the door.

 The 1930s will never come again, but his shoes were

wet with dew. They'll stay that way in marble.

 I went off into the marsh. There the creek was soft and

spread out in the grass like a beer belly. The fishing was

difficult. Summer ducks were jumping up into flight. They

were big mallards with their Rainier Ale-like offspring.

 I believe I saw a woodcock....Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard
...All of the photographs were of white people, includ-

ing Art when he was young and handsome and looked just like

the 1930s.

 There were pictures of animals cut out of magazines and

tacked to the wall, with crayola frames drawn around them

and crayola picture wires drawn holding them to the wall.

They were pictures of kittens and puppies. They looked just

fine .

 There was a bowl of goldfish next to the bed, next to the

gun. How religious and intimate the goldfish an...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

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