Famous Landlubber Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Ghoti

by Heather McHugh
 The gh comes from rough, the o from women's,
and the ti from unmentionables--presto:
there's the perfect English instance of
unlovablility--complete

with fish. Our wish was for a better
revelation: for a correspondence--
if not lexical, at least
phonetic; if not with Madonna

then at least with Mary Magdalene.
Instead we get the sheer
opacity of things: an accident
of incident, a tracery of history: the dung

inside the dungarees, the...Read more of this...

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