Famous Documentary Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Documentary poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous documentary poems. These examples illustrate what a famous documentary poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Kunitz, Stanley
...report
of a five-year-old White Male
sharing my mother's address
at the Green Street tenement in Worcester
I'd have no documentary proof
that I exist. You are the first,
my dear, to bully me
into these festive occasions.
Sometimes, you say, I wear
an abstracted look that drives you
up the wall, as though it signified
distress or disaffection.
Don't take it so to heart.
Maybe I enjoy not-being as much
as being who I am. Maybe
it's time for me to practice...Read more of this...
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