My favorites vary depending on my mood...but the constants remian:
Frost- I love his simple...almost hymnlike tone that convays a sence of peace, even if the poem is sad.
Tennyson- His peoms have great rythem..."In Memoriem" is my favorite.
Wilde- I love "The ballad of reading gaul" (spelled wrong probably...)
Theres more...but those stick out
O to be alive in such an age!
When miracle are everywhere,
And every inch of common air,
Throbs a tremendous prophecy,
Of greater marvels...yet to be.
Blake, I suppose...because he got me into Poetry. The first one I truly admired.
rtc143. because he can rhyme for one!(always a plus,right?) and his poems never fail to make me laugh, and very captivating!
Find your dream and stick with it...or your life will have slipped past in a whisper with you still on the bottom.
Oh, one of these days I'm gonna show you my rhymes... and you'd better laugh... because if you don't... I'm not gonna rhyme anymore!Originally Posted by Beautifull
Now seriously:
Shakespeare: because he talks a tongue of his own, what gives me trouble to understand... what I find attractive.
And then I should mention Tennyson, Shelley, J.R.R. Tolkien, Frost, Yeats, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (that's Spanish poetry, sorry if you don't know her, but you should, though I'm not sure if her work was ever translated into English) and in no special order... To tell the truth I like them all. May not sound objective but... I can't help it.
The correct spelling would be The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Great choice, by the way
hey...i'll check it out.
Find your dream and stick with it...or your life will have slipped past in a whisper with you still on the bottom.
Hey i would so much like to feel the same way you feel, living in harmony with oneself is the only way i mend and grow spiritually and mentally and then see and think positively and clearly. ‘To the Daisy; and ‘To the Same Flower’ these i will find and navigate in them.
I like the poems of homer although it is believed to be short stories that were commonly used by people in ancient times especially when people gathered at night around the fire. I like its metaphorical way of expression that gets me thinking and puzzled and because most of them are narrative.
Shakespeare. For his energy, power, beauty, depth and range. I find it amazing that one man, living in one country, for an average span of years, with little knowledge of the Greek and Roman Classics could write so much
mind-blowing poetry!
Wilfred Owen
His poetry brings me to tears, perhaps too sentimental an old git.
Currently, my favourite poet is Dylan Thomas. 'A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London,' absolutely blew my head off my shoulders.
I also like Auden, Byron, Keats, Chaucer, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop and Michael Longley.
If you get the chance, check out Ian Duhig and Derek Mahon. Mahon has to be one of the best Irish poets writing today and is really nowhere near as well known as he deserves to be.
Last edited by Draemr; 07-25-2009 at 03:48 PM.
I'll have to second that, Draemr. Dylan Thomas is amazing. A lot of his poems can be difficult to understand, but they reward close reading. "Light, I Know, Treads the Ten Million Stars" is one I've come to really appreciate. "Sometimes the Sky's Too Bright" is also amazingly poignant.
I like Andrew Marvell, Yeats, Auden, Blake, Keats, Tennyson, Ovid, Petrarch, Kipling...but I keep coming back to Dylan Thomas as my favorite.
As I made apparent in the 'French Symbolism' thread, I am more than affable to Baudelaire and as apparent in my signature, I love Yeats as well, though he is a newer acquaintance of mine.
I also love Eliot, Rilke, some of Goethe's poetry, and of course Neruda and Shakespeare. Marvell and Blake are also on my list!
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
-W.Blake
Allen Ginsberg
Edna St. Vincent Millay
E.E Cummings
Goethe
Depends on my mood - as others have said here.
Amongst my favourites are Yeats, Longley, Plath, Keats, O'Driscoll, Montague.... Clearly a bias towards Irish poets!
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