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Post by embonpoint on Jun 5, 2011 10:07:02 GMT -5
(Now, I won't pretend to know a lot about poetry. The range of stuff I have read is not so much wide-ranging as it is limited, but I've discerned some favourites nonetheless.)
If I were going for a top four, it would look like this (in no particular order): - Shakespeare
- John Donne
- Pablo Neruda
- Sylvia Plath
Who are yours? What makes you love them so?
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Post by serpentheart on Jun 5, 2011 10:24:23 GMT -5
T.S Eliot Edgar Allan Poe Percy Bysshe Shelley Lord Byron William Wordsworth (whom some say is boring but the way my lecturer read them this semester; it was like magic! Especially the Lucy Gray poems) Shelley is my all time favourite. Especially The Indian Serenade and Love's PhilosophyThe main reason I love them are their use of rich descriptive language. I suppose they're all fairly typical poets to choose, but I love them anyway.  I've never read any Donne or Neruda poetry, will have to check them out! |
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Post by tastyink on Jun 5, 2011 10:39:14 GMT -5
Emily Dickinson--I'm just an all around Dickinson fangirl
Edgar Allen Poe
John Keats
William Blake
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Donne
I definitely don't know much about poetry either, but every time I study poetry in school these are my favorites. I just love the topics the write about and I envy their use of language. Also, if you can't tell I really love Romanticism.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 5, 2011 11:58:14 GMT -5
Tennyson
Eliot
Keats
(Looking at this now, that's... kind of a bizarre array. But they are my favorites, so that's that.)
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 5, 2011 11:58:38 GMT -5
KEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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I took a course last summer entitled "Four Weeks with John Keats." It was amazing, I loved it, and I wish I could do something like that for every Romantic poet. Four week intensive study? Yes please!
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 5, 2011 12:03:53 GMT -5
KEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS /fangirl I took a course last summer entitled "Four Weeks with John Keats." It was amazing, I loved it, and I wish I could do something like that for every Romantic poet. Four week intensive study? Yes please! I assume you have strong feelings over Bright Star? (The movie, not the poem...) |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 5, 2011 12:32:58 GMT -5
KEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS /fangirl I took a course last summer entitled "Four Weeks with John Keats." It was amazing, I loved it, and I wish I could do something like that for every Romantic poet. Four week intensive study? Yes please! I assume you have strong feelings over Bright Star? (The movie, not the poem...) We actually watched that as a part of the class. I thought it was good as a movie, though not necessarily as Keats's life. Still, it wasn't a waste of my existence. |
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Post by tastyink on Jun 5, 2011 12:37:12 GMT -5
KEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS /fangirl I took a course last summer entitled "Four Weeks with John Keats." It was amazing, I loved it, and I wish I could do something like that for every Romantic poet. Four week intensive study? Yes please! JEALOUS |
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Post by jasper on Jun 5, 2011 13:19:38 GMT -5
Eliot, Tony Hoagland, Edwin Morgan.
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Post by Silva on Jun 5, 2011 13:44:16 GMT -5
T.S. Eliot
Robert Frost
Sylvia Plath (well, okay, so I've only read one poem. I'm planning on reading more because I loved that one)
I'm remarkably derelict. I can remember reading individual poems in English classes, but I've never actually read a whole book of poems, except Eliot's "The Waste Land" and Other Poems.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 5, 2011 14:11:18 GMT -5
How the hell did I forget Robert Frost. He wrote my favourite poem.
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Post by Silva on Jun 5, 2011 14:18:45 GMT -5
How the hell did I forget Robert Frost. He wrote my favourite poem. Which poem is your favorite? |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 5, 2011 14:36:53 GMT -5
Oh, and not exactly a poet, but I love the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu ("100 Poems by 100 Poets," one of the oldest collections of traditional Japanese poetry).
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 5, 2011 15:34:17 GMT -5
How the hell did I forget Robert Frost. Ditto. We fail. He wrote one of my faves. Oh, and not exactly a poet, but I love the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu ("100 Poems by 100 Poets," one of the oldest collections of traditional Japanese poetry). That sounds amazing. I want. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 5, 2011 16:11:28 GMT -5
How the hell did I forget Robert Frost. Ditto. We fail. He wrote one of my faves. Oh, double ditto. Robert Frost, how do we keep forgetting you? Oh, and not exactly a poet, but I love the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu ("100 Poems by 100 Poets," one of the oldest collections of traditional Japanese poetry). That sounds amazing. I want. It's all on the internet, these days -- ask Professor Google for help finding. |
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