who according to you deserve to take first place of best poets of all times?
Please state your reasons why.
the best poet of all times?
who according to you deserve to take first place of best poets of all times?
Please state your reasons why.
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
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.
Last edited by Danik 2016; 09-16-2016 at 11:34 PM.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
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.
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
This time cacian, you go too far.Originally Posted by cacian
(Although actually, that's why I like your posts)
Jerrybaldy in nostalgic mood is pretty good.
ay up
Obviously Cacian.
I vote for the anonymous author of, "Finders keepers, losers weepers."
LOLObviously Cacian.
I meant published studied poets outside this forum haha :
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
anonymous?
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
Chaucer
do you have a favourite poem of him?
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
can a poet move on to be a better writer for it do you think?
in other words be a poet and then a writer.
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
accidentally, Cacian, a poet is a writer of poetry.
sure but poetry is prose
a novel is not.
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
I've made my choice.
cacian
speaks better french than
a hatian
but longing brings no elation
unless
a dacian
from the romanian nation
achieves translation
of the conflagration
in combination
with a thracian
at the workstation
of love
Last edited by Pompey Bum; 09-17-2016 at 08:20 PM.
If you mean writing prose, Cacian, yes there are many writers like Goethe, for example, who write poetry, prose, essays and plays as well. And he was good in all genres.
Others stick just to poetry or prose.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
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