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Famous Television Set Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Ayres, Pam
...Dad took me to our local pub in 1953,
They had a television set, the first I’d ever see,
To watch a Coronation! I knew it sounded grand,
Although at six years old, the word was hard to understand.

But little kids like me, and others all around the world,
We saw the magic crown; we saw magnificence unfurled,
A brand new Queen created, the emergence and the birth,
And the Abbey seemed a place between...Read more of this...



by Ginsberg, Allen
...rs a day. Help. 
America this is quite serious. 
America this is the impression I get from looking in 
 the television set. 
America is this correct? 
I'd better get right down to the job. 
It's true I don't want to join the Army or turn lathes 
 in precision parts factories, I'm nearsighted and 
 psychopathic anyway. 
America I'm putting my ***** shoulder to the wheel. 

 Berkeley, January 17, 1956...Read more of this...

by Lowell, Robert
...a boiling

over a Mosler Safe, the "Rock of Ages"
that survived the blast. Space is nearer.
When I crouch to my television set,
the drained faces of ***** school-children rise like balloons.

Colonel Shaw
is riding on his bubble,
he waits
for the bless?d break.

The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere,
giant finned cars nose forward like fish;
a savage servility
slides by on grease....Read more of this...

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