Famous Rewrite Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Rewrite poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous rewrite poems. These examples illustrate what a famous rewrite poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Gorman, Amanda
...low it.
Hope—
we must bestow it
like a wick in the poet
so it can grow, lit,
bringing with it
stories to rewrite—
the story of a Texas city depleted but not defeated
a history written that need not be repeated
a nation composed but not yet completed.
There’s a poem in this place—
a poem in America
a poet in every American
who rewrites this nation, who tells
a story worthy of being told on this minnow of an earth
to breathe hope into a palimpsest of t...Read more of this...
by
Bridges, Robert Seymour
...ncient store,
Better with best confound, so he may pack
His greedy gatherings closer, more and more?
Let the true Muse rewrite her sullied page,
And purge her story of the men of hate,
That they go dirgeless down to Satan's rage
With all else foul, deform'd and miscreate:
She hath full toil to keep the names of love
Honour'd on earth, as they are bright above.
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I heard great Hector sounding war's alarms,
Where thro' the listless ghosts chiding he strode,
As tho' the ...Read more of this...
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