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Do you have a favourite poet? If so, who and what is it about them that makes you like them so much?
This is something that I've been wondering for a long time. So, why not ask it on here?
| Edgar Allen Poe | 25 | |
| Emily Dickinson | 3 | |
| Langston Hughes | 1 | |
| Myself | 10 | |
| I hate poetry | 10 | |
| other | 18 |
I'm not into poetry really, but I usually listen to music that I think has well written verses. I guess that's a little bit like poetry.
Though he didn't write much poetry, I would say Oscar Wilde, though I like him more for his other writings.
I've always loved Poe, but more so for his short stories.
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is amazing, as well as anything Goeth wrote. I could go on for a while, so I'll end it there. :)
it appears you are into romanticism. i would recommend you to read Shelley or Becquer if you know spanish
I've heard of this, but I've never found the time to really delve into them.
I've read some of Poe's work, but not his short stories.
I hate poetry. I think it's because I'm a very direct person.
Plus one time I had to do a poetry project in middle school, it had to be an illustrated booklet with poems having to do with the 5 senses. I tried real hard on it, and I got a shit grade so I was pissed....I followed the rules, I guess my poems just didn't please the teacher, I found it wasn't very fair, I still tried. Anyway, the joke was on her, because there was a poem in there about sheep and I didn't have any cotton balls at home to make the sheep with so I used the closest thing I could find, which was the innards of a maxi pad. So ha!! Ha ha!! Bitch. Fuck poetry.
you would like then realism or even magical realism, also poetry written by the spanish generation on 1898. very direct and simple, try Antonio Machado.
btw i have the same problem with my art teacher, i cant draw but i still enjoy visual arts although i hate my teacher
Perhaps, it was too literal and the woman couldn't deal with reality:)
Well, at least you got her back.
I never have just one favorite, but I would say Poe, Coleridge and e e cummings are favorites; and in French I love Verlaine, Baudelaire, Louise de Vilmorin, Apollinaire, Cocteau, Eluard, Francois Villon, etc.
do you really expect to find a normal question here mate?
What is normal?
Is it living along
or what is thought as formal?
Simple, be you, sing your song.
It was just to see who liked poetry and felt like sharing their favourites.
I love Poe and I like the other choices but Shakespeare is the most popular dramatist and poet the world has ever produced.I'm surprised he wasn't a choice and even more he wasn't mentioned. There are so many amazing writers out there, I still love Shel Silverstein from when I was a kid. My fave from Shel is called "Nobody"
Nobody loves me,
Nobody cares,
Nobody picks me peaches and pears.
Nobody offers me candy and Cokes,
Nobody listens and laughs at me jokes.
Nobody helps when I get in a fight,
Nobody does all my homework at night.
Nobody misses me,
Nobody cries,
Nobody thinks I'm a wonderful guy.
So if you ask me who's my best friend, in a whiz,
I'll stand up and tell you that Nobody is.
But yesterday night I got quite a scare,
I woke up and Nobody just wasn't there.
I called out and reached out for Nobody's hand,
In the darkness where Nobody usually stands.
Then I poked through the house, in each cranny and nook,
But I found somebody each place that I looked.
I searched till I'm tired, and now with the dawn,
There's no doubt about it-
Nobody's gone!
I like this one from Mary Elizabeth Frye
Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.
<3
Certainly my favourite poet of all time is Ruben Dario, a nicaraguan poet and head of modernism. and in English and Italian too would be Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was he head of romanticism in England (if you played L.A. Noire you a probably familiar with some of his work). also a modern author would be Reyli Barba, mexican musician and former singer of Elefante, not to leave out Arjona, Jose Alfredo Jimenez and Sabina. MEXICAN LITERATURE RULES! and also i love my poetry :p
None of the above. I love Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy - but you also can't beat Coleridge's poem, "The Rime of the Ancyient Mariner". Awesome sauce.
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
Well my favorite poem of all time is by Edgar Allan Poe, so I guess by default he is my favorite poet.