Famous Program Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Program poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous program poems. These examples illustrate what a famous program poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...He climbed to the top
of one of those million white pines
set out across the emptying pastures
of the fifties - some program to enrich the rich
and rebuke the forefathers
who cleared it all at once with ox and axe -
climbed to the top, probably to get out
of the shadow
not of those forefathers but of this father
and saw for the first time
down in its valley, Bruce Pond, giving off
its little steam in the afternoon,
pond where Clarence Akley came on Sunday morni...Read more of this...
by
Kinnell, Galway
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