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Famous Exploited Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Atwood, Margaret
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Instead of what I do sell.
You have to have talent 
to peddle a thing so nebulous
and without material form.
Exploited, they'd say. Yes, any way
you cut it, but I've a choice
of how, and I'll take the money.

I do give value.
Like preachers, I sell vision,
like perfume ads, desire
or its facsimile. Like jokes
or war, it's all in the timing.
I sell men back their worse suspicions:
that everything's for sale,
and piecemeal. They gaze at me and...Read more of this...



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