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Famous Exaggerations Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...pine
withholding its authority,
was the friendship of a star, aloof,
with no more intimacy than was called for,
with no exaggerations:
he never climbed all over my clothes
filling me full of his hair or his mange,
he never rubbed up against my knee
like other dogs obsessed with sex.

No, my dog used to gaze at me,
paying me the attention I need,
the attention required
to make a vain person like me understand
that, being a dog, he was wasting time,
but, with those eyes so ...Read more of this...
by Neruda, Pablo



...ous; 
I say for ornaments nothing outre can be allowed, 
And that anything is most beautiful without ornament,
And that exaggerations will be sternly revenged in your own physiology, and in other
 persons’ physiology also; 
And I say that clean-shaped children can be jetted and conceived only where natural forms
 prevail in public, and the human face and form are never caricatured; 
And I say that genius need never more be turned to romances, 
(For facts properly told, how me...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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