Famous Investigating Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Investigating poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous investigating poems. These examples illustrate what a famous investigating poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Spike Milligan
American Detectives
Never remove their hats
When investigating murders
In other people's flats.
P.S. Chinese Tecs
Are far more dreaded!
And they always appear
Bare-headed!...Read more of this...
by
Andrew Barton Paterson
'Twas in scientific circles
That the great Professor Brown
Had a world-wide reputation
As a writer of renown.
He had striven finer feelings
In our natures to implant
By his Treatise on the Morals
Of the Red-eyed Bulldog Ant.
He had hoisted an opponent
Who had trodden unawares
On his "Reasons for Bare Patches
On the Female Native Bears"....Read more of this...
by
Emily Dickinson
Have any like Myself
Investigating March,
New Houses on the Hill descried --
And possibly a Church --
That were not, We are sure --
As lately as the Snow --
And are Today -- if We exist --
Though how may this be so?
Have any like Myself
Conjectured Who may be
The Occupants of the Adobes --
So easy to the Sky --
'Twould seem that God should be
The...Read more of this...
by
Pablo Neruda
You've asked me what the lobster is weaving there with
his golden feet?
I reply, the ocean knows this.
You say, what is the ascidia waiting for in its transparent
bell? What is it waiting for?
I tell you it is waiting for time, like you.
You ask me whom the Macrocystis alga hugs in its arms?
Study, study it, at a...Read more of this...
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