Favourite poets ???.....
Poe, Keats and T S Elliot. Sylvia Plath sometimes too.
Favourite poets ???.....
Poe, Keats and T S Elliot. Sylvia Plath sometimes too.
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 always prefered prose over poetry, but some poets I really like include Poe, Whittier, Longfellow.
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
"Lo!" he (Stomper) cried, pointing to the south. "Many riders approach like the wind!"
"Would that they rode downwinds as well," said Legolam, wrinkling his nose.
"Keen are the nostrils of the Elves," said Stomper.
I like Yeats
He had duende!
El campo
de olivos
se abre y se cierra
como un abanico...The field
of olive trees
opens and closes
like a fan...
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.
Yesterday is the Past; Tomorrow is the Future; Today is a Gift and that's why it's called the Present.
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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needs must when the devil drives...
I just love T.S. Eliot's "Practical Cats"
"Good bye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it." ...He fancied there was a glimmer on the ground as he peered out at that high stony place where all his life had fallen into ruin. -TTT
I have to say that my favorite poet is Edgar Allan Poe...can ya tell?
John 145-6
Thomas said to him, "Lord we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?" Jesus answered "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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