Famous Demoted Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Demoted poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous demoted poems. These examples illustrate what a famous demoted poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...calls it,
but afterward, as I walked along the river bank,
I imagined how it might have broken
the woman's heart to be demoted from mother
to a mere composition, a study in colorlessness.
As the summer couples leaned into each other
along the quay and the wide, low-slung boats
full of spectators slid up and down the Seine
between the carved stone bridges
and their watery reflections,
I thought: how ridiculous, how off-base.
It would be like Botticelli calling "The Birth of...Read more of this...
by
Collins, Billy
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