Famous Caption Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Caption poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous caption poems. These examples illustrate what a famous caption poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...I brave Death's ebon dart. Anon 1777. GENOA. ...Read more of this...
by
Petrarch, Francesco
...ace in Ben Hur,—The Lost World, with sound,
& The Man from Blankey's, which he did not dig,
nor did he understand one caption of,
bewildered Henry, while the Big Ones laughed.
Now Henry is unmistakably a Big One.
Fúnnee; he don't féel so.
He just stuck around.
The German & the Russian films into
Italian & Japanese films turned, while many
were prevented from making it.
He wishing he could squirm again where Hoot
is just ahead of rustlers, where William S
forgoes some de...Read more of this...
by
Berryman, John
...rtin Johnson
dressed in riding breeches,
laced boots, and pith helmets.
A dead man slung on a pole
"Long Pig," the caption said.
Babies with pointed heads
wound round and round with string;
black, naked women with necks
wound round and round with wire
like the necks of light bulbs.
Their breasts were horrifying.
I read it right straight through.
I was too shy to stop.
And then I looked at the cover:
the yellow margins, the date.
Suddenly, from inside,
came an...Read more of this...
by
Bishop, Elizabeth
...ms it to my Hooded thinking
Reflex Holiday.
Had there been no sharp Subtraction
From the early Sum --
Not an Acre or a Caption
Where was once a Room --
Not a Mention, whose small Pebble
Wrinkled any Sea,
Unto Such, were such Assembly
'Twere Thanksgiving Day....Read more of this...
by
Dickinson, Emily
...feel, nor evil fear below. Macgregor. SOLITUDES OF VAUCLUSE. ...Read more of this...
by
Petrarch, Francesco
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