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Famous Autopsy Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Told me how Johnson (Lionel) died
By falling from a high stool in a pub ...

But showed no trace of alcohol
At the autopsy, privately performed --
Tissue preserved -- the pure mind
Arose toward Newman as the whiskey warmed.

Dowson found harlots cheaper than hotels;
Headlam for uplift; Image impartially imbued
With raptures for Bacchus, Terpsichore and the Church.
So spoke the author of "The Dorian Mood",

M. Verog, out of step with the decade,
Detached from his contempo...Read more of this...
by Pound, Ezra



...THE AUTOPSY OF

 TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA



This is the autopsy of Trout Fishing in America as if Trout

Fishing in America had been Lord Byron and had died in

Missolonghi, Greece, and afterward never saw the shores

of Idaho again, never saw Carrie Creek, Worsewick Hot

Springs, Paradise Creek, Salt Creek and Duck Lake again.

The Autopsy of Trout Fishing in ...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard
...In a back room a man is performing an autopsy 
on an old raincoat.
 His wife appears in the doorway with a candle 
and asks, how does it go?
 Not now, not now, I'm just getting to the lining, 
he murmurs with impatience.
 I just wanted to know if you found any blood clots?
 Blood clots?!
 For my necklace . . ....Read more of this...
by Edson, Russell

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