Famous Luddite Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Luddite poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous luddite poems. These examples illustrate what a famous luddite poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Tebb, Barry
...on, you write hard
While I write soft about
Our common Leeds; we share
A hatred of all grammar schools.
You see Luddite blood while
I dream of Margaret’s first
Menstruation; you see the Aire
As slime, to me it was the
Halcyon’s nesting ground.
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The Kardomah Caf?
Breathed a smell of coffee
You caught a street away
A roaster in the window
Kept bursting into flames
Like the sudden poems
I write when my feet
First touch South
Accommodation Road o...Read more of this...
by
Chesterton, G K
...ng ago.
I saw great Cobbett riding,
The horseman of the shires;
And his face was red with judgement
And a light of Luddite fires:
And south to Sussex and the sea the lights leapt up for liberty,
The trumpet of the yeomanry, the hammer of the squires;
For bars of iron rust away, rust away, rust away,
Rend before the hammer and the horseman riding in,
Crying that all men at the last, and at the worst and at the last,
Have found the place where England ends and England can ...Read more of this...
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