Famous Franco Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Franco poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous franco poems. These examples illustrate what a famous franco poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...36, a child
in Hitler's Germany,
what did I know about the war in Spain?
Andalusia was a tango
on a wind-up gramophone,
Franco a hero's face in the paper.
No one told me about a poet
for whose sake I might have learned Spanish
bleeding to death on a barren hill.
All I knew of Spain
were those precious imported treats
we splurged on for Christmas.
I remember pulling the sections apart,
lining them up, sucking each one
slowly, so the red sweetness
would last and last --
while I...Read more of this...
by
Mueller, Lisel
...o e l'onor di quell'arte
ch'alluminar chiamata è in Parisi?».
«Frate», diss'elli, «più ridon le carte
che pennelleggia Franco Bolognese;
l'onore è tutto or suo, e mio in parte.
Ben non sare' io stato sì cortese
mentre ch'io vissi, per lo gran disio
de l'eccellenza ove mio core intese.
Di tal superbia qui si paga il fio;
e ancor non sarei qui, se non fosse
che, possendo peccar, mi volsi a Dio.
Oh vana gloria de l'umane posse!
com'poco verde in su la cima dura,
se non è giu...Read more of this...
by
Alighieri, Dante
...s with puzzlement I bide me,
Beneath that rich, resplendent rag,
I hear a bitter voice beside me:
"It isn't ours - it's Franco's flag.
"I'm Right: I have no Left obsession.
I hate the Communists like hell,
But after ten years of oppression
I hate our Franco twice as well.
And hush! I keep (do not reprove me)
His portrait in a private place,
And every time my bowels move me
I - spit in El Caudillo's face."
These were the words I heard, I swear,
But when I turned around to st...Read more of this...
by
Service, Robert William
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