Famous Disadvantages Poems by Famous Poets

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

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On The Disadvantages Of Central Heating

by Amy Clampitt
 cold nights on the farm, a sock-shod
stove-warmed flatiron slid under
the covers, mornings a damascene-
sealed bizarrerie of fernwork
 decades ago now

waking in northwest London, tea
brought up steaming, a Peak Frean
biscuit alongside to be nibbled
as blue gas leaps up singing
 decades ago now

damp sheets in Dorset, fog-hung
habitat of bronchitis, of long
hot soaks in the bathtub, of nothing
quite drying out till next...Read more of this...

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