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Famous Mania Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Browning, Robert
...now, 
Whose ailment is the subject of discourse. 
Thus then, and let thy better wit help all! 

'Tis but a case of mania--subinduced 
By epilepsy, at the turning-point 
Of trance prolonged unduly some three days: 
When, by the exhibition of some drug 
Or spell, exorcization, stroke of art 
Unknown to me and which 'twere well to know, 
The evil thing out-breaking all at once 
Left the man whole and sound of body indeed,-- 
But, flinging (so to speak) life's gates too wide...Read more of this...



by Whitman, Walt
...ir sins;
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; 
Not one is dissatisfied—not one is demented with the mania of owning
 things; 
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago; 
Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth. 

So they show their relations to me, and I accept them;
They bring me tokens of myself—they evince them plainly in their
 possession. 

I wonder where they get those tokens: 
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