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Famous Competitive Poems by Famous Poets

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

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..., and everybody laughed— 
As I laughed afterwards; and I doubt not 
The First Intelligence, which we have drawn 
In our competitive humility 
As if it went forever on two legs,
Had some diversion of it: I believe 
God’s humor is the music of the spheres— 
But even as we draft omnipotence 
Itself to our own image, we pervert 
The courage of an infinite ideal
To finite resignation. You have made 
The cement of your churches out of tears 
And ashes, and the fabric will not stand...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington



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