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Famous Tuition Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Whitman, Walt
...ay. 

What is your money-making now? what can it do now? 
What is your respectability now? 
What are your theology, tuition, society, traditions, statute-books, now? 
Where are your jibes of being now?
Where are your cavils about the Soul now? 

7
A sterile landscape covers the ore—there is as good as the best, for all the forbidding
 appearance; 
There is the mine, there are the miners; 
The forge-furnace is there, the melt is accomplish’d; the hammers-men are at hand wi...Read more of this...



by Lowell, Robert
...,
not the chafe and cling
of this despondent chaff.

 3
Yet for a moment, the children
could play truant from their tuition.

 4
When I look back, I see a collapsing
accordion of my receding houses,
and myself receding
to a boy of twenty-five or thirty,
too shopworn for less, too impressionable for more—
blackmaned, illmade
in a washed blue workshirt and coalblack trousers,
moving from house to house,
still seeking a boy's license
to see the countryside without arriva...Read more of this...

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