who is your favorite poet? I like John DOnne and Robert Frost.
[question posted by wmaharper]
responses and comments:
I like those two, and Wm. Blake, and ee cummings. Edgar Allan Poe had some catchy stuff as well. I think I need to get out some of my poetry books and indulge. I have some huge text books of literature as well. Thanks for posting this discussion, it is a good reminder to do more with our minds. [GardenGerty]
The Raven, my favourite poem of all time :) [Raevyn1972]
My favourites are Edgar Allen Poe, W.H. Auden, Shakespeare, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. [Raevyn1972]
yes, all good ones as well. (though I'm not familiar with W.H. Auden) [wmaharper]
It's true that most of us like/love the classic writers of poetry. But what about contemporary writers. I personally like Saul Williams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/saul_williams). He took a form of performance poetry and elevated it to high art. It's all in his words and metaphors. Even though they sound good read aloud by him, I think most people miss something unless they read it themselves and see the structure on paper...or screen. And for some reason, I could quote Raven verbatim. Don't know how or why... [silenciobarnes]
I will have to check out his work. Thanks for the link.. [wmaharper]
I like daniell steel too and Robert ludlum. I loved Barabara taylor bradford's series about emma harte. Its real good and a must study too. [mansha]
sorry this one got postyed by mistake inthis post. please mark it as negative. [mansha]
I like keats and wordsworth all time greats and recently I love harivansh rai bachchan's poenms too. he is a great hindi poet. his poem kay karoon samvedna le kar tumhari kay karoo is my favorite. It means what should I do with your symapthies what should I do? he rejects people's sympathies in this poem and accepts the fact tht we have come alone in this world and will depart alone too. [mansha]
I haven't heard much of his, I'll have to google him and read some. Thanks. [wmaharper]
So far the only poet i really liked was Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Famous for many of his works but mainly known for Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. I also liked Shelley and Byron. [lostpoet]
YEs, Shelley and Byron are good as well. I enjoy most of thier stuff.. [wmaharper]
Roald Dahl and Allan Ahlberg. Honestly. I like stories, I like humour, I like rhymes. I'm more likely to sit and read the Please Mrs Butler collection than I am to take up some Ted Hughes. Although, I'm a fan of Donne's 'death be not proud'. And Christina Rosetti has a few interesting pieces. but mostly I think poetry is a great tool for comedy and light hearted fun :) [Fexbox]
yes, it sure can be. thanks for your response.. [wmaharper]
My favorite poet of all time is Edgar Allan Poe..Next, would have to be Emily Dickinson..And as for 'modern time' poets, Karen Finley is another favorite, especially a collection of some of her work in a book titled "Shock Treatment"~ [Jusred]
Yes, Dickinson was a good classic.. [wmaharper]
My favourite poet is Pushkin I wonder if anybody knows him at all, but in Russia he is number one and forever :-) [Zebrochka]
yes, i've heard of him. [wmaharper]
My favourite poet is Pushkin I wonder if here anybody knows him... but in Russianb he is forever number one [Zebrochka]
My favourite poet is Pushkin I wonder if here anybody knows him at all, but in Russia he is forever number one :-) [Zebrochka]
Does anyone remember a short story, I think of it occasionally but can't remember the title. The author of the story is Russian, I am not sure if it was Puskin? But in the story, a soldier comes home from the war and he gets involve with a woman, they marry(I think) but he can't make love to her. Anybody know the name of that story? [Corrine11]
Having a degree in English, I'm going to have to join the bunch who like the classic poets. My favorites include Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare, and Lord Byron. I have a good friend who writes some great poetry, but she hasn't done much in the way of getting it published so no one here will know of her. [DreamOn01]
Yes all good ones! My husband is a wonderful poet, and maybe one day i'll convince him to publish. [wmaharper]
My favorite poet is Rabindra Nath Tagore and myself. [sunita64]
I like many of the poets like vikram seth,william shakespeare Robert frost etc..and many more [gagana]
I liked the poet khairil anwar. Because he a legendary poet, even I want to very much studied the poem from him, yes, asked for his knowledge a little....:D [agusfebi]
wow there are so many to choose from. John Donne and Robert Frost are wonderful poets. I also like Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou. But I would say my favorite would have to be W.B. Yeats. Because he tried to use his poetry to gain a unified Ireland. [soulist]
Yes, I agree Yeats is good as well. Thanks for the thoughtful response. [wmaharper]
Theodore Roethke, Sara Teasdale, Adrienne Rich and Walt Whitman. I also like some more contemporary stuff of Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman and Guy Gavriel Kay. [cajundharma]
yes, those are all great as well. I especially like Margaret Atwood. THough I have never read any of Neil Gaiman, so I'll have to google him as well. (: [wmaharper]
I have not read any poetry in a good while. My interest comes and goes in waves. But yeah I loved John Donne when I was younger. e.e cummings was also someone I enjoyed. Many others, I can't think of them right now, but will look up and get back to you. [Corrine11]
YEs, I had fogotten all about E.E. cummings.. Thanks! [wmaharper]
I like Mihai Eminescu. It's a romanian poet. It's the best poet in Romania. [BlaKy2]
I have never heard of this poet.. another to add to my list.. (: [wmaharper]
Oh I remember when I had to recite my first Robert Frost poem by memory, it was hard. I'm not sure but I'm pretty sure it's titled "The Road Not Taken". But my favorite poet is Pablo Neruda. [yesikita_unm]
I love that poem by Robert Frost.. I haven't heard of Pablo Neruda. I'll have to check him out. [wmaharper]
well my all time favourite poet is rabindranath tagore , the nobel laurete from india . he has written in bengali and is simply a genius . he has written poem for all moods and about all things in life . the national anthem of india is written by him . and he won the nobel prize for gitanjali [jacobdsouza]
wow. I haven't heard of him either. There are alot of national poets that I am ignorant of, which is sad. [wmaharper]
I have read most of the ones already mentioned. I like Shelley, Keats ,Donne and Frost. I like sonnets of Shakespeare.....they are really good. [opinder]
YEs, Shakespeare's sonnets are wonderful. [wmaharper]
Definitely Robert Frost. My alltime favorite has to be Birches...One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. [candygurl24]
(: yes, thankyou for your response. [wmaharper]
I like those poets too, in fact I have a lot of favorite poets. Some that I really like are Emily Dickenson, William Butler Yeats and Sara Teasdale. [bethmt]
YEs, I like Emily Dickenson and yeats as well.. I've never heard of Teasdale.. [wmaharper]
My favorite poet of all time has to be Robert Burns the Scottish Bard,but another poet who's work i enjoy is a world war 1 poet called wilfred owen. [jimmythejock]
I have always loved Robert Frost, partially because I grew up very close to the home that he and his family lived in from I believe 1900-1911 or so. It is now the "Robert Frost Farm", and it is still furnished the way it was when he lived there. He wrote most of his books while living there. [Sarah1977]
wow, I envy you, that would be nice to see. I think the only historic home we have here is Garth Brooke's (: [wmaharper]
My favorites include Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent-Millay, Pablo Neruda, Angela Manalang-Gloria, and e.e. cummings. [micamaldita]