who according to you deserve to take first place of best poets of all times?
Please state your reasons why.
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who according to you deserve to take first place of best poets of all times?
Please state your reasons why.
I think there would be many. Some of my favorites would be considered song lyricists. Others are not. Also, other people might not agree with my choices and so those that I think are great need not be the ones others find worth reading or hearing again. The reason why they would be great (for me) is because I would choose to hear or read the poem multiple times.
For me there are many too.
Shakespeare, Lorca, Fernando Pessoa,Goethe, Celan, Whitman,Huidobro, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Joćo Cabral de Melo Neto,and,and...
and the flow of the prose of Guimarćes Rosa.
I like poets who write beautifully about universal themes. I don“t care very much about love poems.
It's tough to say, because that means making comparisons between poets massively separated in time and space, and consequently with very different styles and intentions. Not to mention the fact that a great number of my favourite poems are by anonymous poets, which sometimes makes establishing a 'canonical' poet quite difficult.
Still, if I was pressed and forced to give one specific name, I would probably say Chaucer.
Obviously Cacian. :)
I vote for the anonymous author of, "Finders keepers, losers weepers."
accidentally, Cacian, a poet is a writer of poetry.
poetry is prose? Tell me cacian :)
Anyways, here for your enjoyment, a Novel that happens to be a poem:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/wom...ra/aurora.html
Uncanny Valley:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
I have spent the last few years in New England (USA) and Taiwan (ROC). Uncanny Valley is just a joke.
don't be lazy, imagine how many questions you can imagine from poesy long wings :D
I don't know if I'd call it grand. New England was settled by the Puritans, and they had a problem with grand. But it is old by Anglo-American standards so there is plenty of history here. And Boston, which was later inundated by Irish and Italian immigrants, has its own (more earthy) charms. I grew up in the suburbs and went to college in Cambridge, which is just across the Charles River. So, you know, it's home.
Taiwan is where my wife comes from. We've gone back and forth seasonably for a few years (th humidity is unbearable in the summer) but we've been having some issues lately that may keep up state-side for a while. Taiwan is a beautiful but very eccentric country. It's doomed to be swallowed up by the Communists eventually, but I'm glad to have known it when I did. Poor Taiwan, as they say, so far from God, so close to China.
Paul Celan. I think with him poetry has reached its zenith, and it will only be able to go downwards from that position in which Celan has left it.
Unfortunately for most people who've replied so far might not be acquainted with Eastern poets and since I am so I rate them higher. There are names such as Mirza Ghalib (wrote mostly about love related themes but was so good with the use of words that he's considered the very best), Meer Taqi Meer, Allama Iqbal (was inspired from Goethe and wrote about universal themes ranging from religion to politics to social themes). These are all poets who wrote in Urdu with the exception of Allama Iqbal who also wrote in Persian.
Then I haven't spoken of Maulana Rumi, the same Rumi who is often quoted on spirituality. He had a major work called the Masnavi, a work in Persian in which he touches on various spiritual themes. Again this is highly rated as piece of work. There are other Sufi spiritualists such as Bhulley Shah and Waris Shah whose poetry has the quality of being very moving and again touch on universal themes while at the same time being wonderful specimens of wordplay.
In short it's so hard to say which is the best but generally speaking I think the East has some very wonderful poetic works.