Famous Second Person Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Tony Hoagland
 Maxine, back from a weekend with her boyfriend,
smiles like a big cat and says
that she's a conjugated verb.
She's been doing the direct object
with a second person pronoun named Phil,
and when she walks into the room,
everybody turns:

some kind of light is coming from her head.
Even the geraniums look curious,
and the bees, if they were here, would buzz
suspiciously around her hair,...Read more of this...

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