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Famous Achilles Heel Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...It brings to mind Swift leaving a fortune to Dublin

‘For the founding of a lunatic asylum - no place needs it more’.

The breathing beauty of the moors and cheap accommodation

Drew me but the total barbarity of the town stopped me from

Writing a single line: from the hideous facade of its railway

Station - Betjeman must have been drunk or mad to praise...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry



...Thou hast committed—
Fornication: but that was in another country,
And besides, the wench is dead.

The Jew of Malta.


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AMONG the smoke and fog of a December afternoon
You have the scene arrange itself—as it will seem to do—
With “I have saved this afternoon for you”;
And four wax candles in the darkened room,
Four rings of light upon the ceiling overhe...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)

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