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Who's your favorite poet? What's your favorite poem?

The lines I have running through my head right now are
"I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling cross the floors of silent seas"
I love that metaphor.

By Anglophile (Anglophile) on Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 02:52 pm: Edit

Is that T.S. Eliot?

I like The Highwayman, The Wreck of the Hesperus, and The Blind Men and the Elephant. Can't remember who they're by---(Bad english major!) Oh, all time favorite is "The Eagle and the Mole" by Elinor Wylie.
"Avoid the reeking herd,
Shun the polluted flock,
Live like that stoic bird,
The eagle of the rock. " etc...

By Megofou (Megofou) on Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 04:19 pm: Edit

Favorite?! But but but there are so many...

I guess my top of the top would be Shakespeare. The Complete Works is my bible. I couldn't even begin to name a favorite poem. Every time the question comes up I post a different answer.

By Titanz05 (Titanz05) on Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 04:40 pm: Edit

Robert Frost.

By Glowingamy (Glowingamy) on Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 08:05 pm: Edit

Horace

By Iplayoboe (Iplayoboe) on Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 09:19 pm: Edit

Robert Frost

By Taffy (Taffy) on Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 10:54 pm: Edit

Brother Ali

his song Dorian is gold :D you can see the scenes he spits

By Aspirer42 (Aspirer42) on Friday, September 24, 2004 - 12:30 am: Edit

Philip Larkin.

By Anglophile (Anglophile) on Friday, September 24, 2004 - 02:40 am: Edit

Robert Browning has some delightfully twisted poems, especially for a Victorian (read Porphyria's Lover), Elizabeth Barret Browning, his wife, is his polar opposite in poetry-- she's very romantic. And of course, ya gotta love Poe. His use of tactile language is unmatched in my opinion.

heeheehee, I just made up my own literary term "tactile language". I like it!

By Jl87d (Jl87d) on Friday, September 24, 2004 - 03:02 am: Edit

Carl Sandburg, (maybe because I'm swedish and norwegian to)

LAST ANSWERS

I WROTE a poem on the mist
And a woman asked me what I meant by it.
I had thought till then only of the beauty of the mist,
how pearl and gray of it mix and reel,
And change the drab shanties with lighted lamps at evening
into points of mystery quivering with color.

I answered:
The whole world was mist once long ago and some day
it will all go back to mist,
Our skulls and lungs are more water than bone and
tissue
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last
answers
Go running back to dust and mist.

By Emeraldkity4 (Emeraldkity4) on Friday, September 24, 2004 - 09:10 am: Edit

William Carlos Williams
Pablo Neruda
William Blake

By Geniusash (Geniusash) on Friday, September 24, 2004 - 11:47 am: Edit

Not long ago the writer of these lines in the mad pride of intellectuality maintained the power of words. Denied that ever a thought a arose within the human brain beyond the utterance of the human tongue. Now, as if in mockery of that boast two words-two foriegn soft dissylables-Italian tones...

This is what is stuck in my head. Poe. Ah.

By Elizabeth22 (Elizabeth22) on Friday, September 24, 2004 - 03:01 pm: Edit

Amy- Horace? Nah, Vergil's much better .

By Momofthree (Momofthree) on Friday, September 24, 2004 - 05:42 pm: Edit

Yeats

When you are old and grey and full of sleep . . .

By Cherrybarry (Cherrybarry) on Friday, September 24, 2004 - 10:35 pm: Edit

Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac

By Jekyllnhyde10 (Jekyllnhyde10) on Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 01:49 pm: Edit

Langston Huges

By Jekyllnhyde10 (Jekyllnhyde10) on Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 01:51 pm: Edit

Yeats. Cool. Just read "Things Fall Apart" It waws named after the author read one of Yeats' poems

By Vadim (Vadim) on Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 10:39 pm: Edit

" Yeats. Cool. Just read "Things Fall Apart" It waws named after the author read one of Yeats' poems"

The book is good, and the poem is even better.

By Sammgc68 (Sammgc68) on Sunday, September 26, 2004 - 12:02 am: Edit

I like Blake and Frost, but my favorite poet is Billy Joe Armstrong

By Musefinity (Musefinity) on Monday, September 27, 2004 - 01:26 pm: Edit

Sylvia Plath.

By Noodleman (Noodleman) on Monday, September 27, 2004 - 02:43 pm: Edit

shakespeare
eliot