Famous Livingroom Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Berck-Plage

by Sylvia Plath
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This is the sea, then, this great abeyance.
How the sun's poultice draws on my inflammation.

Electrifyingly-colored sherbets, scooped from the freeze
By pale girls, travel the air in scorched hands.

Why is it so quiet, what are they hiding?
I have two legs, and I move smilingly..

A sandy damper kills the vibrations;
It stretches for miles, the shrunk voices

Waving and crutchless, half their old size.
The...Read more of this...

Dream Song 133: As he grew famous-'ah but what is fame?

by John Berryman
 As he grew famous-”ah, but what is fame?-”
he lost his old obsession with his name,
things seemed to matter less,
including the fame-”a television team came
from another country to make a film of him
which did not him distress:

he enjoyed the hard work & he was good at that,
so they all said-”the charming Englishman 
among the camera & the lights
mathematically wandered in...Read more of this...

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