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Famous Components Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Not that anyone here
but you would understand.
The rest of them would like to watch me
and feel nothing. Reduce me to components
as in a clock factory or abattoir.
Crush out the mystery.
Wall me up alive
in my own body. 
They'd like to see through me, 
but nothing is more opaque
than absolute transparency.
Look--my feet don't hit the marble!
Like breath or a balloon, I'm rising,
I hover six inches in the air
in my blazing swan-egg of light.
You think I'm not a goddess?
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by Atwood, Margaret

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