Poems which deserve to be read by all at least once in their life

[monicaroxanne]

Here are poems I think someone has to read and at least once in their life:

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe,
The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats,
If by Joseph Rudyard Kipling,
The Arrival of the Bee Box by Sylvia Plath,
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by Thomas Stearns Eliot,

Also,

William Shakespeare's Sonnet XVIII with
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet XLIII

and

The Lamb by William Blake with
The Tyger by William Blake


What do you think? Do you Agree or Disagree?
Would you like to make other suggestions?

[Saladin]

Masnavi by Rumi

[Cat_Brenners]

Thanks for the references of poems. I will have to check these out.
Cat

[bree]

I would add Paradise Lost by Milton

[Pecksie]

'Epipsychidion' and 'Ode to the West Wind' by Shelley
'An Arundel Tomb' by Philip Larkin
'The Good Morrow', 'A Fever' and 'Hymn to God my God' by John Donne
'They Flee from Me' by Sir Thomas Wyatt
'Leave me, O love...' by Sir Philip Sidney

[monicaroxanne]

Masnavi by Rumi

I have never heard of Rumi. I'll check him out, thanks

[dramasnot6]

'If' by Rudyard Kipling

[monicaroxanne]

Thanks for the references of poems. I will have to check these out.
Cat

It's no problem. The others which are added on by other members are worth looking at too. Milton's Paradise Lost is quite worth while to read. If you read it and like it, you should then read Frankenstein as a reccomendation.

[monicaroxanne]

I would add Paradise Lost by Milton

Yeah that's a good one. Can't believe I missed that. Thanks

Oh and if you don't mind me asking, have you read the whole 12 books yourself?

[monicaroxanne]

'Epipsychidion' and 'Ode to the West Wind' by Shelley
'An Arundel Tomb' by Philip Larkin
'The Good Morrow', 'A Fever' and 'Hymn to God my God' by John Donne
'They Flee from Me' by Sir Thomas Wyatt
'Leave me, O love...' by Sir Philip Sidney

Thank You. I have heard of the poets but not these specific poems. I shall look them up.

[monicaroxanne]

'If' by Rudyard Kipling

Hahahah it's on the list

[wron]

"Romance" by Edgar Allan Poe

[Virgil]

"Sailing To Byzantium" and "Byzantium" both by Yeats.
"Ash Wednesday" and "The Waste Land" both by T.S. Eiot
"Ode To A Grecan Urn" and "Ode to a Nightingale" both by Keats
In Memoriam by Tennyson
"Sunday Morning" and "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour" both by Wallace Stevens

And lots and lots and lots others. But how's that for now.

[Kafka's Crow]

A list of very basic, accessible yet essential poems:

Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare
The Sunne Rising and Batter My Heart by John Donne
An Essay on Man and The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
Tyger (William Blake)
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge)
Tintern Abbey, The Daffodils, The Solitary Reaper and the Lucy Poems by Wordsworth
She Walks in Beauty by Byron
Lines on an Indian Air, Adonais, Ode to the West Wind by Shelley
To Autumn, Ode to the Nightingale, To... (Had I man's fair form...), Isabella or the Pot of Basil by John Keats
The Lady of Shallot, Charge of the Light Brigade and Sweet and Low by Tennyson
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
The Raven and Annabelle Lee by Poe
Sailing to Byzantium, The Wild Swans at Coole, When You are Old, The Second Coming by W B Yeats
Dover Beach by Mathew Arnold
If by Rudyard Kipling
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion, Journey of the Magi by T S Eliot
In the Station of a Metro by Ezra Pound
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, The Road Not Taken, Desert Places, Birches by Robert Frost
The Emperor of Ice Cream by Wallace Stevens

Let's read these first and then we will discuss Pushkin, Lautreamont and Baudelair etc!

[JBI]

There are literally thousands - I'll add though, Hart Crane's Voyages sequence.
The Four Quartets - Eliot
Birches - Frost
The Wild Swans at Coole - Yeats
The Snow man - Stevens

Amongst thousands of others - virtually all the Norton anthology, even the minor poets.