Famous Patronizing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Parents Pantoum

...up. 
Someday perhaps we'll capture their attention
Then we won't try to be dignified like them
Nor they to be so gently patronizing.

Someday perhaps we'll capture their attention.
Don't they know that we're supposed to be the stars?
Instead they are so gently patronizing.
It makes us feel like children--second-childish?

Perhaps we're too accustomed to be stars.
The famous flowers glowing in the garden,
So now we pout like children. Second-childish?
Quaint fragments of forgo...Read more of this...
by Kizer, Carolyn


The Ballad Of How Macpherson Held The Floor

...k to get away from all the noise he makes?"
Then reinforced with fancy food they slowly trickled forth,
And watching in patronizing mood the Piper of the North.

Proud, proud was Jock MacPherson, as he made his bag-pipes skirl,
And he set his sporran swinging, and he gave his kilts a whirl.
And President MacConnachie was jumping like a flea,
And there was joy and rapture in the Scottish Commy-tee.
"Jist let them have their saxophones wi' constipated squall;
We're having Heave...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Corridor

...It may have been the pride in me for aught 
I know, or just a patronizing whim; 
But call it freak of fancy, or what not, 
I cannot hide the hungry face of him.

I keep a scant half-dozen words he said, 
And every now and then I lose his name; 
He may be living or he may be dead, 
But I must have him with me all the same.

I knew it and I knew it all along,-- 
And felt it once or twice, or thought I did; 
But only as a...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

The Lay of a Golden Goose

...ck; 
Prim Guinea fowls relenting called, 
"Come back, come back, come back." 

Great chanticleer was pleased to give 
A patronizing crow, 
And the contemptuous biddies clucked, 
"I wish my chicks did so." 

The peacocks spread their shining tails, 
And cried in accents soft, 
"We want to know you, gifted one, 
Come up and sit aloft." 

Wise owls awoke and gravely said, 
With proudly swelling breasts, 
"Rare birds have always been evoked 
From transcendental nests!" 

News-hun...Read more of this...
by Alcott, Louisa May

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