Famous Figures Of Speech Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Figures Of Speech poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous figures of speech poems. These examples illustrate what a famous figures of speech poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Nash, Ogden
...t to destroy the Hebrew host.
But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he
had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers
to people they say Oh yes, they're the ones that a lot of
wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.
That's the kind of thing that's being done all the time by poets,
from Homer to Tennyson;
They're always comparing ladies to lilies and veal ...Read more of this...
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