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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 5, 2011 20:54:15 GMT -5
Re: favourite poem - "The Road Not Taken"
I also love "Fire and Ice," if that's what it's called.
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Post by cattink on Jun 6, 2011 17:26:30 GMT -5
Elinor Wylie
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
I'll probably be adding Billy Collins to this list soon after hearing his Thesaurus poem today.
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Post by Silva on Jun 6, 2011 18:40:42 GMT -5
Re: favourite poem - "The Road Not Taken" I also love "Fire and Ice," if that's what it's called. It is "Fire and Ice," and I love both those poems. |
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Post by casey on Jun 7, 2011 5:07:01 GMT -5
Keats. Such a brilliant musical quality to his work that in my reading has been matched by no one. So fun to read.
Also Tennyson. Pays attention to language down to the most microscopic level possible. Such meticulous, tragic, intelligent work.
Jessica Care Moore is a more recent favorite of mine, doing spoken word that translates well to the page. Also Ginsberg now that I mention spoken word. I'm a sucker for rhythm.
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Post by ashleeoh on Jun 7, 2011 13:25:32 GMT -5
Recently, I've been reading and thoroughly enjoying:
Mary Oliver
Saskia Hamilton
varying translations of Sappho
Laura Jensen
Allen Ginsberg
Frank O'Hara
T.S. Eliot (we read Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats to our daughter almost weekly)
and Anne Carson (almost always have a book of hers cracked open.)
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 7, 2011 22:25:01 GMT -5
I love how widely Robert Frost's poems can be opened up.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 7, 2011 22:33:32 GMT -5
I love how widely Robert Frost's poems can be opened up. My poetry professor, with whom I studied Frost, said there are (at least) two different sides to each of Frost's poems: the surface and the (what I like to call) "troll" version. |
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Post by serpentheart on Jun 7, 2011 23:09:01 GMT -5
I forgot that one of my favourite contemporary poets, and life inspiration, is Taylor Mali! He has funny poems, inspirational poems and heartbreakingly sad poems. And he performs them slam! Woo!
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 7, 2011 23:11:12 GMT -5
SLAM POETRY. All of it. To listen to, not to read.
I met Patricia Smith once, and she's a cool lady.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 7, 2011 23:12:49 GMT -5
SLAM POETRY. All of it. To listen to, not to read. I met Patricia Smith once, and she's a cool lady. There was a guy who called himself Danny Boy that came to my high school often. He was good. |
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 7, 2011 23:13:26 GMT -5
I love how widely Robert Frost's poems can be opened up. My poetry professor, with whom I studied Frost, said there are (at least) two different sides to each of Frost's poems: the surface and the (what I like to call) "troll" version. Yes! That. I once argued with a girl for twenty hours straight about Home Burial, only taking breaks to sleep, eat meals, or go to class. Basically, any time we were on the same hall, we were arguing about it. |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 7, 2011 23:14:55 GMT -5
My poetry professor, with whom I studied Frost, said there are (at least) two different sides to each of Frost's poems: the surface and the (what I like to call) "troll" version. Yes! That. I once argued with a girl for twenty hours straight about Home Burial, only taking breaks to sleep, eat meals, or go to class. Basically, any time we were on the same hall, we were arguing about it. Looked it up. Reading it. Didn't get past the first line without assuming it's sexual. |
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 7, 2011 23:23:16 GMT -5
I hope you passionately enjoy it so we can argue about it (unless we agree, in which case we can passionately agree).
Wouldn't it be cool to have a weekly poetry discussion or something?
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Post by andy on Jun 8, 2011 2:44:57 GMT -5
Browning, Blake, Baudelaire.
And some others whose names are not alliterative so they don't deserve a mention.
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Post by andreaisabbbw on Jun 8, 2011 20:54:05 GMT -5
William Blake
Robert Frost
e.e. cummings
Pablo Neruda
Wilfred Owen
Sylvia Plath
My favorite Frost poem is "Acquainted With the Night".
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