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Famous Nomenclature Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Browning, Robert
...eep ('t is an old mistake 
To place hell at the bottom of the earth) 
He ignored these,--not having in readiness 
Their nomenclature and philosophy: 
He said true things, but called them by wrong names. 
"On the whole," he thought, "I justify myself 
"On every point where cavillers like this 
"Oppugn my life: he tries one kind of fence, 
"I close, he's worsted, that's enough for him. 
"He's on the ground: if ground should break away 
"I take my stand on, there's a fir...Read more of this...



by Dugan, Alan
...My mother never heard of Freud
and she decided as a little girl
that she would call her husband Dick
no matter what his first name was
and did. He called her Ditty. They
called me Bud, and our generic names
amused my analyst. That must, she said,
explain the crazy times I had in bed
and quoted Freud: "Life is pain."
"What do women want?" an...Read more of this...

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