Famous Chunky Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Little Mack

...raphs are pointed as a tack,
And that's because they emanate
From little Mack.

In architecture he is what you'd call a chunky man,
As if he'd been constructed on the summer cottage plan;
He has a nose like Bonaparte; and round his mobile mouth
Lies all the sensuous languor of the children of the South;
His dealings with reporters who affect a weekly bust
Have given to his violet eyes a shadow of distrust;
In glorious abandon his brown hair wanders back
From the grand Webster...Read more of this...
by Field, Eugene


Part 6 of Trout Fishing in America

..., but there all the same, like certified pub-

lic accountants. I'd catch one every once in a while. They

were fat and chunky, almost as wide as they were long. I've

heard those trout called "squire" trout.

 It used to take me about an hour to hitchhike to that creek.

There was a river nearby. The river wasn't much. The creek

was where I punched in. Leaving my card above the clock

I'd punch out again when it was time to go home.

 I remember the afternoon I caught the h...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

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