Famous Immortalizing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Fourth Floor Dawn Up All Night Writing Letters

by Allen Ginsberg
 Pigeons shake their wings on the copper church roof
out my window across the street, a bird perched on the cross
surveys the city's blue-grey clouds. Larry Rivers
'll come at 10 AM and take my picture. I'm taking
your picture, pigeons. I'm writing you down, Dawn.
I'm immortalizing your exhaust, Avenue A bus.
O Thought! Now you'll have to think the same thing forever!

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