Famous Optician Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Dippold the Optician

by Edgar Lee Masters
 What do you see now? 
Globes of red, yellow, purple. 
Just a moment! And now? 
My father and mother and sisters. 
Yes! And now? 
Knights at arms, beautiful women, kind faces. 
Try this. 
A field of grain—a city. 
Very good! And now? 
A young woman with angels bending over her. 
A heavier lens! And now? 
Many women with bright...Read more of this...

For the Young Who Want To

by Marge Piercy
 Talent is what they say 
you have after the novel 
is published and favorably 
reviewed. Beforehand what 
you have is a tedious 
delusion, a hobby like knitting. 

Work is what you have done 
after the play is produced 
and the audience claps. 
Before that friends keep asking 
when you are planning to go 
out and get a job. 

Genius...Read more of this...

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