Society based or Social poetry is poetry which performs a social function or contains a level of social commentary. The term seems to have first appeared as a translation from the original Spanish Poesia Socíal, used to describe the post-Spanish-civil-war poetry movement of the 1950s and 60s.

- Once Upon a Time
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Richard Cory
- Big match, 1983