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Famous Imperatives Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Docker

by Heaney, Seamus

...f thing could start again; 
The only Roman collar he tolerates 
Smiles all round his sleek pint of porter. 

Mosaic imperatives bang home like rivets; 
God is a foreman with certain definite views 
Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure. 
A factory horn will blare the Resurrection. 

He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross, 
Clearly used to silence and an armchair: 
Tonight the wife and children will be quiet 
At slammed door and smoker's cough in the h...Read more of this...

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