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Famous Straitjacket Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...o -
that fat banker who got locked up,
his genes suspened like dollars,
wrapped up in his secret,
tied up securely in a straitjacket.

But you, my doctor, my enthusiast,
were better than Christ;
you promised me another world
to tell me who
I was.

I spent most of my time,
a stranger,
damned and in trance—that little hut,
that naked blue-veined place,
my eyes shut on the confusing office,
eyes circling into my childhood,
eyes newly cut.
Years of hints
strung out—a ...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne



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