who's your favorite poet? why?

My favorites vary depending on my mood...but the constants remian:

Frost- I love his simple...almost hymnlike tone that convays a sence of peace, even if the poem is sad.

Tennyson- His peoms have great rythem..."In Memoriem" is my favorite.

Wilde- I love "The ballad of reading gaul" (spelled wrong probably...)

Theres more...but those stick out :)

Blake, I suppose...because he got me into Poetry. The first one I truly admired.

rtc143. because he can rhyme for one!(always a plus,right?) and his poems never fail to make me laugh, and very captivating!

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rtc143. because he can rhyme for one!(always a plus,right?) and his poems never fail to make me laugh, and very captivating!

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Oh, one of these days I'm gonna show you my rhymes... and you'd better laugh... because if you don't... I'm not gonna rhyme anymore! :p :lol:

Now seriously:
Shakespeare: because he talks a tongue of his own, what gives me trouble to understand... what I find attractive.
And then I should mention Tennyson, Shelley, J.R.R. Tolkien, Frost, Yeats, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (that's Spanish poetry, sorry if you don't know her, but you should, though I'm not sure if her work was ever translated into English) and in no special order... To tell the truth I like them all. May not sound objective but... I can't help it.

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Wilde- I love "The ballad of reading gaul" (spelled wrong probably...)

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The correct spelling would be The Ballad of Reading Gaol :)
Great choice, by the way :thumbs_up

hey...i'll check it out.

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Wordsworth I think. Maybe part of that choice is my own sentimentality, but I love and appreciate Wordsworth’s deep connection with nature all the same. He carries his love to the extreme so that nature becomes a healer and teacher to the faults of mankind, and makes perfect sense because of it really.

I love his simple little pieces, which is of course part of the Wordsworth style, for example I love the idea of the poems ‘To the Daisy; and ‘To the Same Flower’ (partially quoted below) though they are nothing much really, even compared to other Wordsworth poems. For it might as well say “I have seen all that mankind is capable of and have rejected that in favour of the simplicity of nature” because after all to live in harmony with nature ultimately means living in harmony with oneself.

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Hey i would so much like to feel the same way you feel, living in harmony with oneself is the only way i mend and grow spiritually and mentally and then see and think positively and clearly. ‘To the Daisy; and ‘To the Same Flower’ these i will find and navigate in them.

I like the poems of homer although it is believed to be short stories that were commonly used by people in ancient times especially when people gathered at night around the fire. I like its metaphorical way of expression that gets me thinking and puzzled and because most of them are narrative.

Shakespeare. For his energy, power, beauty, depth and range. I find it amazing that one man, living in one country, for an average span of years, with little knowledge of the Greek and Roman Classics could write so much
mind-blowing poetry!

Wilfred Owen

His poetry brings me to tears, perhaps too sentimental an old git.

Currently, my favourite poet is Dylan Thomas. 'A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London,' absolutely blew my head off my shoulders.

I also like Auden, Byron, Keats, Chaucer, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop and Michael Longley.

If you get the chance, check out Ian Duhig and Derek Mahon. Mahon has to be one of the best Irish poets writing today and is really nowhere near as well known as he deserves to be.

I'll have to second that, Draemr. Dylan Thomas is amazing. A lot of his poems can be difficult to understand, but they reward close reading. "Light, I Know, Treads the Ten Million Stars" is one I've come to really appreciate. "Sometimes the Sky's Too Bright" is also amazingly poignant.

I like Andrew Marvell, Yeats, Auden, Blake, Keats, Tennyson, Ovid, Petrarch, Kipling...but I keep coming back to Dylan Thomas as my favorite.

As I made apparent in the 'French Symbolism' thread, I am more than affable to Baudelaire and as apparent in my signature, I love Yeats as well, though he is a newer acquaintance of mine.

I also love Eliot, Rilke, some of Goethe's poetry, and of course Neruda and Shakespeare. Marvell and Blake are also on my list!

Allen Ginsberg
Edna St. Vincent Millay
E.E Cummings
Goethe

Depends on my mood - as others have said here.

Amongst my favourites are Yeats, Longley, Plath, Keats, O'Driscoll, Montague.... Clearly a bias towards Irish poets!