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Famous Classrooms Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Doty, Mark
...presumably,
they didn't care that they were living: 

all, all for all,
the rainbowed school
and its acres of brilliant classrooms, 

in which no verb is singular,
or every one is. How happy they seem,
even on ice, to be together, selfless, 

which is the price of gleaming....Read more of this...



by Brautigan, Richard
...r> I had a fellowship.

 My books were a pair of Sears Roebuck boots, ones with

green rubber pages. Most of my classrooms were close to

the shore. That's where the important things were happen-

ing and that's where the good things were happening.

 Sometimes as experiments I laid boards out into the mud

puddles, so I could look into the deeper water but it was not

nearly as good as the water in close to the shore.

 The water bugs were so small I prac...Read more of this...

by Gregory, Rg
...f their dreams
and (near it) regress into children
(the only unashamed animal-bit
they have left in themselves)

   all
classrooms should be down by the sea...Read more of this...

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