Famous 1961 Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous 1961 poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous 1961 poems. These examples illustrate what a famous 1961 poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Autobiography

...w much longer I'll live
 what else will happen to me


 This autobiography was written 
 in east Berlin on 11 September 1961...Read more of this...
by Hikmet, Nazim


Morning Song

...
Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try
Your handful of notes;
The clear vowels rise like balloons.

(1961)...Read more of this...
by Plath, Sylvia

Part 8 of Trout Fishing in America

...pular in the early 40s. I guess

they were all just passing fads.

 A sick baby on the trail down from Hell-diver, July 1961,

is probably a more important question. It cannot be left to

go on forever, a sick baby to take her place in the galaxy,

among the comets, bound to pass close to the earth every

173 years.

 She stopped puking after Mushroom Springs, and I carried

her back down along the path in and out of the shadows and

across other nameless springs, and by the ...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

Requiem

...Nor under foreign wings protected -
 I shared all this with my own people
 There, where misfortune had abandoned us.
 [1961]

INSTEAD OF A PREFACE

During the frightening years of the Yezhov terror, I
spent seventeen months waiting in prison queues in
Leningrad. One day, somehow, someone 'picked me out'.
On that occasion there was a woman standing behind me,
her lips blue with cold, who, of course, had never in
her life heard my name. Jolted out of the torpor
characteristic ...Read more of this...
by Akhmatova, Anna

September 1961

...This is the year the old ones,
the old great ones
leave us alone on the road.

The road leads to the sea.
We have the words in our pockets,
obscure directions. The old ones

have taken away the light of their presence,
we see it moving away over a hill
off to one side.

They are not dying,
they are withdrawn
into a painful privacy

learning to live without...Read more of this...
by Levertov, Denise


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