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Famous Controversial Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...the Latin name of every songbird, not only in
America but wherever they sing.
(Shun meditation, though; invite the controversial:
Is the world flat? Do bats eat cats?) By digging hard I might
deflect that river, my mind, that uncontrollable thing,
Turgid and yellow, srong to overflow its banks in spring, 
carrying away bridges
A bed of pebbles now, through which there trickles one clear
narrow stream, following a course henceforth nefast—

Dig, dig; and if I come to ledg...Read more of this...
by St Vincent Millay, Edna



...epicene.

Sweeney shifts from ham to ham
Stirring the water in his bath.
The masters of the subtle schools
Are controversial, polymath....Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)

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