what's the most difficult poem that u have ever read?

[holdencaulfield]

some of eliot's early poems r really obscure like rilke's.

[IrishCanadian]

For me it would be Homer's Oddisy. Unoftunatliy it was so long ago that I don't remember the translation. It must have been a pretty easy translation though (I was in grade 10) because when I thought I could tackle his Iliad I found it way above my background.
It took me a while to get into early Eliot. I think that after you get used to it though it becomes a little more naturally.

[Geoffrey]

For me initially it was definitely Horace. I blame that though on my lacking ability to read Latin and the English translations of his text available. Though I can say that after some time spent with them, they became easier and easier to understand.

[wordseraph]

I'd say Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen. I've yet to completely read it.

[lapis25]

i cant quite remember the name, but i know it has to be a shakepere's sonnets. sonnets by him are always difficult to read.

[holdencaulfield]

i don't find shakespeare's sonnets difficult.all the difficulty i find is in the poems of sylvia plath.

[Woland]

Pound's 'Cantos' are fairly obscure.

[mousemouse]

I think for me it was "Hymnen an die Nacht" by Novalis.

[NoviceSeer]

Almost all of Rimbaud's poems are very difficult to comprehend. The poems that I got most was Le Bateau Ivre and Sensation.