Famous Slaving Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Slaving poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous slaving poems. These examples illustrate what a famous slaving poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Belieu, Erin
...uirting perfume onto little cards,
while stocking salad bars, when stripping
covers from romance novels, their heroines
slaving on the chain gang of obsessive love—
and always the same hard candy
of shame dissolving in my throat;
handing in my apron, returning the cash-
register key. And yet, how fine it feels,
the perversity of freedom which never signs
a rent check or explains anything to one's family......Read more of this...
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Brautigan, Richard
...DA VINCI
On this funky winter day in rainy San Francisco I've had a
vision of Leonardo da Vinci. My woman's out slaving away,
no day off, working on Sunday. She left here at eight o'clock
this morning for Powell and California. I've been sitting here
ever since like a toad on a log dreaming about Leonardo da
Vinci.
I dreamt he was on the South Bend Tackle Company pay-
roll, but of course, he was wearing different clothes and
speaking with a differe...Read more of this...
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Lawson, Henry
...bushman hath 'em, too,
For he's not a poet's dummy -- he's a man, the same as you;
But his back is growing rounder -- slaving for the absentee --
And his toiling wife is thinner than a country wife should be.
For we noticed that the faces of the folks we chanced to meet
Should have made a greater contrast to the faces in the street;
And, in short, we think the bushman's being driven to the wall,
And it's doubtful if his spirit will be `loyal thro' it all'.
Th...Read more of this...
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Moore, Marianne
...ls of exactness,
on four legs; on hind feet plantigrade,
with certain postures of a man. Beneath sun and moon, man slaving
to make his life more sweet, leaves half the flowers worth having,
needing to choose wisely how to use his strength;
a paper-maker like the wasp; a tractor of foodstuffs,
like the ant; spidering a length
of web from bluffs
above a stream; in fighting, mechanicked
like the pangolin; capsizing in
disheartenment. Bedizened or stark
naked, m...Read more of this...
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