Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:10 am Posts: 10993 Gender: Male
Did a search for this and the first topic to come back was the Super Bowl thread. Didn't see a favorite poet thread.
Two of my favorite poets are E.E. Cummings and T.S. Eliot. I've always enjoyed poetry that was free form and I love evocative imagery, so these guys appeal to me.
"Buffalo Bill's" by cummings
Buffalo Bill's
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death
Poets who write things like that always amaze me. I've tried to come up with rules to interpet his poems but I never can do it. It is what it is, I suppose.
Joined: Sun Nov 21, 2004 5:33 am Posts: 93 Location: Charleston, SC Gender: Female
Alex wrote:
E.E. Cummings
I guess it's pretty obvious that e.e. cummings is my favorite as well. His work is absolutely brilliant. His arrangement makes you stop and think about every word that he chooses. If you haven't heard any of his readings of his own poetry, I highly recommend it...there's a new CD coming out in March.
Joined: Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:06 am Posts: 708 Location: Somewhere
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Edgar Allen Poe
The City In The Sea is one of the most amazing things I have ever read.
Yes! One of his best.
Poe would be my favorite as well, though I also like William Blake and Robert Frost. If it's not going too far back in time, I'd add Geoffrey Chaucer to that list as well. I love reading his work...even in Middle English.
you know what's crazy? how much actually does depend on a red wheelbarrow. no sarcasm intended here at all.
how about some love for samuel taylor coleridge and his "rime of the ancient mariner" yeah, not originally by iron maiden. he also took opium first.
as for poems that aren't narrative, i think i also love frost the most.
as for eliot: this is the way a pearl jam album ends
this is the way a pearl jam album ends
this is the way a pearl jam album ends
not with a bang, but a whimper.
Joined: Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:58 pm Posts: 1148 Location: Green Bay
I've been reading sporadically from "The Rose That Grew From Concrete" by Tupac Shakur. Surprisingly amazing stuff.
_________________ When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, "It is done. People did not like it here.''
Joined: Tue Nov 23, 2004 1:36 am Posts: 5458 Location: Left field
Have to go with the Romantic poets, been collecting their works for a little over a year now
Keats-
"Can death be sleep, when life is but a ream,
And scens of bliss pass as a phantom by?
The transient pleasures as a vision seem,
And yet we think the greatest pain's to die."
"How strange it is that man on earth should roam,
And lead a life of woe, but not forsake
His rugged doom which is but to awake."
Byron-
"In secret we met-
In silence I grieve,
They thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I shoud meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee!-
With silence and tears."
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