Famous Reworking Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Reworking poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous reworking poems. These examples illustrate what a famous reworking poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Sexton, Anne
...Slim inquirer, while the old fathers sleep
you are reworking their soil, you have
a grocery store there down under the earth
and it is well stocked with broken wine bottles,
old cigars, old door knobs and earth,
that great brown flour that you kiss each day.
There are dark stars in the cool evening and
you fondle them like killer birds' beaks.
But what I want to know is why when small boys
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