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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by
Tebb, Barry
...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 pr...Read more of this...
by
Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...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 ceilin...Read more of this...
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