Famous Evolutionary Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Evolutionary poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous evolutionary poems. These examples illustrate what a famous evolutionary poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Lewis, C S
...Lead us, Evolution, lead us
Up the future's endless stair;
Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us.
For stagnation is despair:
Groping, guessing, yet progressing,
Lead us nobody knows where.
Wrong or justice, joy or sorrow,
In the present what are they
while there's always jam-tomorrow,
While we tread the onward way?
Never knowing where we're going,
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by
Brautigan, Richard
...but in other
ways vastly different from, other kinds of animal communi-
cation. We simply have no idea about its evolutionary history,
though many people have speculated about its possible origins.
There is, for instance, the 'bow-bow' theory, that language
started from attempts to imitate animal sounds. Or the 'ding-
dong' theory, that it arose from natural sound-producing
responses. Or the 'pooh-pooh' theory, that it began with vio-
lent outcries an...Read more of this...
by
Graham, Jorie
...arranging things,
they will come up here soon, and need a setting for their fears,
and loves, an architecture for their evolutionary
morphic needs -- what will they need if I don't make the place? --
what will they know to miss?, what cry out for, what feel the bitter
restless irritations
for? A bit dizzy from the altitude of everlastingness,
the tireless altitudes of the created place,
in which to make a life -- a liberty -- the hollow, fetishized, and starry
place,
a bi...Read more of this...
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