Favorite Poet

My most favorite poets are William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats and Robert Frost.

DEFINITALY L Hughes :P

Walt Whitman.

I first knew about him thanks to.. the National Geographic Magazine when I was 12 or so, and then I rumbled all over the libraries in town cause in the first years of post-totalitarism in my country it was difficult to find Whitman's works, especially in English.

Later on I have been fascinated by numberous authors, yet Whitman was the one to stay inside of me and root even deeper as years go by, he was the one who let me know that poetry is meant to be read aloud!

I'm a total girl but I love the romantic poets. Lord Byron and John Donne (even though he was just trying to get some) there still great. Elegy 19, the sun rising is great.

i love cummings. the true lord. heh.

also m. doughty, wilfred owen, wallace stevens, and sharon olds.

My fav poet would be Jim Morrison :)

John Donne
Emily Dickinson

Kazuko Shiraishi. After her Richard Brautigan.

*speaking of Edgar, yesterday I realized Poe's name is like poetry for short, and I was really tickled for a few minutes there.

Edgar allan poe and ogden nash.

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Originally posted by Vronaqueen
I'm a total girl but I love the romantic poets. Lord Byron and John Donne (even though he was just trying to get some) there still great. Elegy 19, the sun rising is great.

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there is so much more to Donne than a guy just trying to get some. Granted, that is not to say that there were not instances in which he was trying to do so ("The Flea" comes to mind) but there were also many that were the most profound attempts to describe his love for his wife, Anne. How bout "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning". Also, he was searching for a faith/religion towards the later days as seen in any of his "Holy Sonnets" from Divine Poems such as 10, 14, or 17?

sorry if i sound defensive but I have spent a lot of time studying John Donne's biography and really really wish that i could have met him, as really....he totally rocked.

My fav poet is Zhuo. She's not well-known,tho.
Anybody knows a french poet, Rimbaud?

A new favorite poet of mine is Charles Baudelaire. He captures the human spirit in such few words, while making you smile and laugh at his outlooks on life.

Like den, my favourite poems are lyrics... But for the regularly defined poetry, I do like Baudelaire too, but I never had a favourite poem.... Though maybe I found the one whom I can call my favourite poem... Anna Akhmatova. Until I'll find someone else whose poetry I love, and will thgink again that I have no absolute favourite.

Edgar Allen Poe and Jim Morrison. Had to put my two cents in:D

Poe for me, although I am not widely read in the area of poetry, I shall have to delve into some of these works.