Famous Congratulatory Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Congratulatory poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous congratulatory poems. These examples illustrate what a famous congratulatory poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Whitman, Walt
...my insolent poems the real ME stands yet untouch’d, untold,
altogether
unreach’d,
Withdrawn far, mocking me with mock-congratulatory signs and bows,
With peals of distant ironical laughter at every word I have written,
Pointing in silence to these songs, and then to the sand beneath.
Now I perceive I have not understood anything—not a single object—and that no
man
ever can.
I perceive Nature, here in sight of the sea, is taking advantage of me, to dart upon ...Read more of this...
by
Mandelstam, Osip
...self-congratulatory nonsense as the
famous gather to applaud their seeming
greatness
you
wonder where
the real ones are
what
giant cave
hides them
as
the deathly talentless
bow to
accolades
as
the fools are
fooled
again
you
wonder where
the real ones are
if there are
real ones.
this self-congratulatory nonsense
has lasted
decades
and
with some exceptions...Read more of this...
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