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Famous Gassing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Lewis, C S
...animal wisdom have understood that smell. 
To all our kind its message is Guns, Ferrets, and Traps, 
And a Ministry gassing the little holes in which we dwell....Read more of this...



by Kumin, Maxine
...Gassing the woodchucks didn't turn out right.
The knockout bomb from the Feed and Grain Exchange
was featured as merciful, quick at the bone
and the case we had against them was airtight,
both exits shoehorned shut with puddingstone,
but they had a sub-sub-basement out of range.

Next morning they turned up again, no worse
for the cyanide than we for...Read more of this...

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