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    Red face I need good (or even bad) poems!

    I am doing a project in english (ya fascinating, i know) and I need at least 10 poems that I like. Even some I really hate! So if there are any suggestions that would help a lot. Thanks!

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    try Shakespeare and Bukowski. google search. They are so radically different, it may be likely that you enjoy one but not the other.

    also, try Billy Collins. He's very accessible.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ehs13 View Post
    I am doing a project in english (ya fascinating, i know) and I need at least 10 poems that I like. Even some I really hate! So if there are any suggestions that would help a lot. Thanks!
    Do they have to belong to famous poets only?

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    try The Listeners by Walter De La Mere.
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
    Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer


    my poems-please comment Forum Rules

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    You could try reading some poetry and picking some you like or don't like. Revolutionary idea, I know
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheFifthElement View Post
    You could try reading some poetry and picking some you like or don't like. Revolutionary idea, I know



    Maybe you could scan the poems in the "Favorite Poem" thread to see the poems favoured by some members.
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    they can be poems by anyone. It doesn't matter as long as I get the name of who wrote it.
    "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." -James Dean

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    Allen Ginsberg, S.T. Coleridge, Robert Hayden, Robert Frost, William Blake, and William Wordsworth are some poets who I really enjoy

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    Quote Originally Posted by ehs13 View Post
    they can be poems by anyone. It doesn't matter as long as I get the name of who wrote it.
    Okay, I'm working on something. If I get to be satisfied with it I'll share it with you.
    Great signature by the way.

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    I hate Philip Larkin's poetry - that's pretty divisive. Have a look at some of that.
    "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

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    Thanks everyone! I finally finished my project!!!
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