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Famous Starspangled Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Backdropp Addresses Cowboy

by Atwood, Margaret

...Starspangled cowboy 
sauntering out of the almost-
silly West, on your face 
a porcelain grin, 
tugging a papier-mache cactus 
on wheels behind you with a string, 


you are innocent as a bathtub
full of bullets.


Your righteous eyes, your laconic 
trigger-fingers
people the streets with villains: 
as you move, the air in front of you 
blossoms with tar...Read more of this...

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