casey
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Post by casey on Jun 9, 2011 15:10:28 GMT -5
oh I forgot BROWNING. Porphyria's Lover! That taught me about plosives and how they can sound so violent. also to tie my hair back when dating a new man.
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Post by Vergissmeinnicht on Jun 13, 2011 12:45:42 GMT -5
W.H. Auden. I adore Auden.
Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Ruben Dario, Pablo Neruda, Keith Douglas, and Langston Hughes.
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Post by djcarter on Jun 13, 2011 18:14:49 GMT -5
In addition to many already mentioned (Dickinson, Frost, Donne, Plath...) I'd like to add William Carlos Williams.
Anyone else particularly enjoy his works?
I've never really like Keats that much...perhaps from having to overanalyze all his work in class, but Romantic poetry in general doesn't appeal to me as much.
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Dobby
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Post by Dobby on Jun 13, 2011 19:40:24 GMT -5
YEATS. I bought a book of his poetry and plays today, and I'm looking forward to reading it.
Also Frost and Shakespeare. I don't really have favorite poets, though. As a child, I read poems from an anthology I had, so I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.
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Post by cyanea on Jun 13, 2011 20:23:50 GMT -5
I'm not really a fan of poetry, but Emily Dickinson is my favorite. She's cynical and sarcastic, which is my kind of person.  |
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 13, 2011 21:00:21 GMT -5
Dickinson's so cocky. I am literally in love with her. She packs so much into those poems.
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Post by Silva on Jun 13, 2011 21:05:32 GMT -5
I'm not really a fan of poetry, but Emily Dickinson is my favorite. She's cynical and sarcastic, which is my kind of person. BUT FROST WAS IRONIC! |
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Post by djcarter on Jun 13, 2011 21:29:14 GMT -5
YEATS. I bought a book of his poetry and plays today, and I'm looking forward to reading it. I had actually never realised Yeats was a playwright until reading this post! I went and looked up that when I read it...I suppose I'll have to track down some of his plays. Brief sidetrack on Yeats: I once sat through a presentation about Yeats in History in which someone called him "YEETS" every time he was mentioned...for the whole thing... |
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Post by Annie Ozone on Jun 13, 2011 21:35:27 GMT -5
Whoa, whoa, where is Anne Sexton? Also Edna St. Vincent Millay AND Margaret Atwood. Seriously, go look them up on the poetry foundation, I'll wait.
Of course there's also Audre Lorde, June Jordan (her 'poem about my rights' is my favorite, hands down), Mary Oliver ("Wild Geese"!), Dorothy Parker (who is hilarious), W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Carl Sandburg, A.D. Hope, Lucille Clifton, Maya Angelou, Adrienne Rich, Louise Glück, e.e. cummings, Mary Karr, and A.E. Stallings.
...I may be kind of burned out on novels and reading poetry instead.
ETA: SARAH TEASDALE! And also Pablo Neruda and Elizabeth Bishop, omgggg I am a terrible person.
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Post by cyanea on Jun 13, 2011 21:53:43 GMT -5
I had to write a paper comparing two versions of Dickinson's Alabaster Tombs, after the earlier one was critiqued by her sister-in-law. The amount of over the top sarcasm in the second version was so great, I was giggling as I wrote it.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 14, 2011 1:05:48 GMT -5
I'm not really a fan of poetry, but Emily Dickinson is my favorite. She's cynical and sarcastic, which is my kind of person. BUT FROST WAS IRONIC! Does that make him a hipster? |
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Lilt
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Post by Lilt on Jun 14, 2011 2:28:36 GMT -5
Dickinson was the original hipster.
She did Confessional poetry on vinyl before Plath and Sexton were even born.
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Post by Lilt on Jun 14, 2011 2:31:28 GMT -5
David Kirby is a boss too. And everyone here should read W.S. Merwin's "The Shadow of Sirius."
Dude is the Poet Laureate of the U.S., and spends his time on an abandoned pineapple plantation in rural Hawaii.
Just trust me.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 14, 2011 2:33:23 GMT -5
Dickinson was the original hipster. She did Confessional poetry on vinyl before Plath and Sexton were even born. And she used excessive dashes before journalists made them cool. |
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Post by Lilt on Jun 14, 2011 2:40:45 GMT -5
Dickinson was the original hipster. She did Confessional poetry on vinyl before Plath and Sexton were even born. And she used excessive dashes before journalists made them cool. I wish I had some of the essays from around my sophmore year in college. I was reading a lot of Dickinson, and using a lot of dashes (like seriously all of my papers looked perforated). I thought I was really posh, though. Thankfully my teacher told me I was being a fathead. |
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