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Famous Impressionable Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Brautigan, Richard
...it to me and said, "Write with this, but don't

write hard because this pen has got a gold nib, and a gold

nib is very impressionable. After a while it takes on the per-

sonality of the writer. Nobody else can write with it. This

pen becomes just like a person's shadow. It's the only pen

to have. But be careful. "

 I thought to myself what a lovely nib trout fishing in Am-

erica would make with a stroke of cool green trees along the

river's shor...Read more of this...



by Lowell, Robert
...sing
accordion of my receding houses,
and myself receding
to a boy of twenty-five or thirty,
too shopworn for less, too impressionable for more—
blackmaned, illmade
in a washed blue workshirt and coalblack trousers,
moving from house to house,
still seeking a boy's license
to see the countryside without arrival.

Hell?

Darling,
terror in happiness may not cure the hungry future,
the time when any illness is chronic,
and the years of discretion are spent on complaint—

un...Read more of this...

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