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Famous Talk The Talk Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...First, are you our sort of a person?
Do you wear
A glass eye, false teeth or a crutch,
A brace or a hook,
Rubber breasts or a rubber crotch,

Stitches to show something's missing? No, no? Then
How can we give you a thing?
Stop crying.
Open your hand.
Empty? Empty. Here is a hand

To fill it and willing
To bring teacups and roll away headaches
And do whatev...Read more of this...
by Plath, Sylvia



...The Stranger within my gate,
 He may be true or kind,
But he does not talk my talk--
 I cannot feel his mind.
I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,
 But not the soul behind.

The men of my own stock,
 They may do ill or well,
But they tell the lies I am wanted to,
 They are used to the lies I tell;
And we do not need interpreters
 When we go to buy or...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

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