Famous Darwinian Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Woodchucks

by Maxine Kumin
 Gassing the woodchucks didn't turn out right.
The knockout bomb from the Feed and Grain Exchange
was featured as merciful, quick at the bone
and the case we had against them was airtight,
both exits shoehorned shut with puddingstone,
but they had a sub-sub-basement out of range.

Next morning they turned up again, no worse
for the cyanide than we for our cigarettes
and state-store Scotch, all...Read more of this...

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