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Famous Academies Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Sandburg, Carl
...weeny eggshell exit, it is here men say a riddle and jeer each other: who are you? where do you go from here?

(In the academies many books, at the circus many sacks of peanuts, at the club rooms many cigar butts.)

“Cheep … cheep” … from oval to oval, sunset to sunset, star to star....Read more of this...



by Ginsberg, Allen
...ant cool eyes 
 hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy 
 among the scholars of war, 
who were expelled from the academies for crazy & 
 publishing obscene odes on the windows of the 
 skull, 
who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burn- 
 ing their money in wastebaskets and listening 
 to the Terror through the wall, 
who got busted in their pubic beards returning through 
 Laredo with a belt of marijuana for New York, 
who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpe...Read more of this...

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