Favorite Poet

Who is your favorite poet? Personally I really like John Donne.

This one is one of my favorites:

http://www.online-literature.com/donne/371/

Another one I like is T.S. Eliot. Then also alot of the romantic poets. Keats, Wordsworth, etc.

You're not thinking of Poe are you?

http://www.online-literature.com/poe/335/

I would like to say Kenneth Slessor is one of my favourite poets, and my favourite poem I forgot the name of >:-(
It is the one with the raven above the door, very interesting...

Well admin, I spent all day looking for that poem and you had it! Your a genuis!
Only if there were more like you :)

This poem is my favourite and again I thank you for finding it for me :)

My favorite poem is by Rudyard Kipling, titled "If". Click on this link to see it!

http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/836/

Another favorite of mine is "Tichborne's Elegy" by Chidiock Tichborne supposedly written right before he was executed.
Click here to see that poem!

http://slate.msn.com/poem/01-01-02/poem.asp

For me personally these two poems hold a profoundly important message about the value of life and what it can teach us. Enjoy!

Sylvia Plath.

Wow favorite poet, that's a hard one.

I love Emily Dickinson for her amazing melodic rhymes.

I love Robert Frost for the story-teller quality he has.

I love T.S. Eliot, who else could turn out something like "burnt-out ends of smokey days" ?

I love Maya Angelou, and have had the pleasure of seeing her read in person. That was phenomenal.

I love Poe's stuff. Specifically City in the Sea.

Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake.

Tolkien's ring poem

you know "one ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."

how about Pablo Neruda? in my darker moments i like Baudelaire also

Neruda's pretty cool, as are Wordsworth and Frost - I think I usually prefer pictures than deep meanings, altho meanings can be fun too =]

So many poets to chose from! I do like The Ancient Mariner, and Xanadu... and I read the Divine Comedy [translated] last year, which was great. Find a blank verse translation of the Iliad [Lattimore's is best, I think] and you're away...

My favorite poet is and always has been Emily Dickenson for many reasons. I think it may be because through her self seclusion, I feel, she expressed seclusion in much of her work. I feel every writer, philosopher, thinker, and genius must experience seclusion. Still, I hold great respect for many other poets. We have been graced with genius much in literature and no one should be forgotten.

I'm doing a report on Emily Dickinson right now...... Great stuff.

Found this just surfing the net. Don't know if he is famous or whatever, but the poetry is very interesting. Some of it is very dark and some is just plain romantic.

http://weeping_angels.tripod.com

Hello all. I just discovered this forum. I have been hoping to find one for a while now. So hereI am. My favourite poet is William Blake. I find the mythic nature of his work simply breathtaking. I also like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats as well as the works of Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan.

percy shelly, poe. a lot of reading though.

Favourite poets ???.....
Poe, Keats and T S Elliot. Sylvia Plath sometimes too.

I always prefered prose over poetry, but some poets I really like include Poe, Whittier, Longfellow.

hi all, new boy here. i love blake, kerouac (esp. 'mexico city blues'), ginsberg, john wieners, and dylan thomas. but the more i read, the more really interesting authors turn up. the mountain just gets higher! oh, i forgot to mention theodore giesel (dr.seuss). one of the most bizarre, creative minds ever...

definitely Poe and Frost.
John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud" is my fave,
along with Frost's "The Road Not Taken" and "Fire and Ice".

I really like Frost and Langston Hughes. Also, Maya Angelou is very empowering. "Annabelle Lee" by Poe is beautiful. Oh and of course...Dr. Seuss. :)

Maybe I've missed Walt Whitman being mentioned, or did I?
To me Walt Whitman, in "Leaves of Grass" created one of the most powerful pieces of literature of all time. Those of you who haven't read his life's work should really consider doing so. "Song of Myself" had such an affect on me that it literally changed me and the way I look at the world.
Here's a little exerpt:
"Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen,
Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.

Welcome is every organ and attribute of me,
and any man hearty and clean,
Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest."

Please reply, whether you agree with Whitman's greatness or not.

Let's see.

http//www.online-literature.com/frost/751/

That's one of my favourites. Oh, and of course Dylan Thomas. Wait a minute... He's not on the list. OUTRAGE! GAH! I'm gonna go and request it!

Import!!
I love Whitman´s poetry.......it is very human, full of emotion and live.

My favourite poet(s) would be Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, William Shakespeare...and D.H.Lawrence. Also, a very good modern day poet would be Viggo Mortensen.

Anne Schjerven

I like Yeats

He had duende!

Quote:

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El campo
de olivos
se abre y se cierra
como un abanico...

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The field
of olive trees
opens and closes
like a fan...

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I like William Blake ("The Tyger"), William Wordsworth ("I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"), John Keats ("Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "When I have fears"), Samuel Taylor Coleridge ("Rime of the Ancient Mariner"), Robert Burns ("To a Mouse"), Poe ("The Raven"), and Shakespeare. To list a few. :)

Oh sweet spontaneous or a slice of Seuss would do...[[[Thank you Little Ronnie Howard {{thee Hollywood Hosebag}} for corrupting the good Doctor's work]]]
Let us not forget the Recent Late Greats----> Reverend Deacon lunchbox (outta Atlanta)...
Mr. J. Bernstien (Seattle)... Gregory Corso with his giant BOMB poem...Mssrs Whitman & Frost ((whose woulds i might have happened to be walking through last night, though on this coast, of course... etc&ect...
Let us neither forget the LIVING the Clarice Keegan-sians... the Steven Potter-esque school of working slobs versus verses... i enjoy the sweet Anna's hippie meditations [She's tree sitting in Arcada. If you act organic she may read you something]... Diamond Dave[' DON'T PANIC... STAY..................What?'] there's Wammo in Austin... the whole Milwaukee scene & Mr. Antler with a Factory & a backpack...
but mainly any Poet/ess/es out there ... LIVING ... &... THRIVING... in the art have my undying respect.... POET/ESS/ES LIVE!

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I just love T.S. Eliot's "Practical Cats"

I have to say that my favorite poet is Edgar Allan Poe...can ya tell?

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.