Help!!!

[poetryidiot123]

Hi, this is my first time in a poetry forum. I have poem project for english class. I have to pick a poet and two of his/her poems to analyze. The teacher gave us a list of poets, and I've looked and looked, but i can't find a poet whose poetry i actually like. Any suggestions????
thanks

[Warwick]

John Masefield

[stlukesguild]

Ummm... I don't know how one goes around making suggestions to someone without some notion as to what sort of literature you like... and what sort of literature you have some experience with. How much, if any, experience do you have with poetry? Poetry, after all, is a unique art form quite removed from the novel in its goals and means. From my experience I would suggest something like Edgar Allen Poe's The Bells or The Raven, William Blake's Tyger, Shelley's Ozymandias, something from Edgar Lee masters' Spoon River Anthology, Byron's She Walks in Beauty Like the Night..., Lewis Carroll's Jabberwock, something from Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil, etc... but I think we need more info from you to help you out much more than simply taking a shot in the dark.

[mal4mac]

Which poets are on the list?

[stlukesguild]

Yes... which poets are on the list and are these suggestions or must your choices come from this list?

[poetryidiot123]

Some poets on the list are William Blake, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Robert Browning, E.E. Cummings, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Lord Byron, Rita Dove, Seamus Heaney,Theodore Roethke, William Wordsworth, and there are many more. I am not alllowed to use Dickinson, Frost, Poe, and a few other very popular poets. I want poems that can be analyzed for poetic elements and meaning. I'm really not much of a poem person, so I don't really know specific types of poems I like. I do like poems by Dickinson and Frost, but unfortunately I can't use their poetry. Also I don't nessesarily have to stick to the list, but it's probably better if I do.
Thanks so much for the help so far :)

[stlukesguild]

Of the list you have presented I would probably go with William Blake... especially something taken from his Songs of Innocence and Experience. The Tyger is as good a starting point as any. The poem is apparently simple... on the surface... but repays close reading. There is plenty of critical discussion of Blake out there (as well as biographies) from which you can develop your own take upon his work.

[Red-Headed]

Dickinson, Frost & Poe are popular poets? Where? (OK, I like The Raven) I'd go with Heaney, feel free to check any of my poetry blogs. (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/blog.php?b=6436)