Favorite poets

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Favorite poets

Postby rocklobster » Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:16 am

Like it says
Here are mine
  • William Blake
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • e.e. Cummings
  • Langston Hughes
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Carl Sandburg
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Postby mitsuki lover » Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:07 pm

*William Shakespeare
*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
*Emily Dickinson
*William Blake
*John Milton
*John Keats
*Robert Burns
*Sir Walter Scott
*William Butler Yeats
*Robert Frost
*Eugene Field
*Edgar Guest
*John Greenleaf Whittier
*Oscar Wilde
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Postby Kokhiri Sojourn » Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:40 pm

T.S. Eliot was the first poet that captured me. It was "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" that did it. I found a voice for my soul at the time, words that meant so much more than just text, but life and loneliness, the modernist conflict, on and on. It is one of the reasons I was an English major for a year of college.

That's a start.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:04 pm

I named two of my cats from T.S.Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Cats:
Rumtum from The Rumtum Tugger and Macavity.
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Postby Zarn Ishtare » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:58 pm

T.S Elliot is my current favorite. The Wasteland...amazes me.
With your doubt, all is comfort
We are all as we appear
No more questions left unanswered
No more wonder, no more fear
Nothing is beauty, nothing's feeling
Blood where there once was a soul
So I ask you, prove yourself
Make me believe that you are whole
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Postby Kokhiri Sojourn » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:38 pm

Zarn Ishtare wrote:T.S Elliot is my current favorite. The Wasteland...amazes me.


Yeah. What a crazy, beautiful, brilliant piece of work. I feel like T.S. Eliot was almost singularly responsible for turning the tide from romanticism to modernism in poetry, and there's a reason why. He's just brilliant. And you know he became a Christian. The Four Quartets is one of his Post-Conversion works and it is remarkable.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:33 pm

He was Anglo-Catholic Anglican to be more exact.C.S.Lewis didn't get along with him too well though,at least not early on.

I don't really care for the more modern poets.And as far as Christian poets go,I perfer someone like Milton myself.
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Postby Kokhiri Sojourn » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:52 pm

mitsuki lover wrote:He was Anglo-Catholic Anglican to be more exact.C.S.Lewis didn't get along with him too well though,at least not early on.

I don't really care for the more modern poets.And as far as Christian poets go,I perfer someone like Milton myself.


My second poet I was going to list is John Donne. He is a master of expressing the complicated emotions and anxieties that often accompany the Christian life. His stuff is fairly straight-forward to understand, but leaves much to think about.

I'm not a huge advocate of all modern poetry. T.S. Eliot is my favorite by a long shot, but many of my other favorites would fall in the Metaphysical period during the Renaissance (Donne, Herbert, etc).
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Postby the_wolfs_howl » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:27 am

I'm not very good at appreciating poetry, because too often (at least with modern poetry) I can't understand what they're trying to say. I dabble a little bit in writing poetry myself, but that's just because I like exploring what words rhyme.
Still, I like Edgar Allan Poe. His poems have such a lilting, sing-song sort of quality. My favorite of his poems is "Annabel Lee"; I even tried writing a poem of my own that tries to mimic that style.
I also like Ogden Nash, because his poems are witty, and use rhymes to make things funny.
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Postby Jih » Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:08 pm

Whitman, Dickinson, Shakespeare. Does Milton (Paradise Lost) count?
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Postby Kokhiri Sojourn » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:02 am

Jih wrote:Does Milton (Paradise Lost) count?


Absolutely. Milton, in addition to that epic poem, wrote many other short poems. You should check out "On His Blindness" if you like Milton.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:18 pm

He actually wrote two epic poems,there's also a much less known Paradise Regained.
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Postby The Liar XIII » Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:30 pm

My favorite Poet.. Possibly my good friend, Joey Lawrence.
He is very talented in his writing skills. He has a novel out now titled "'Till Death Do Us Part", you may want to check it out sometime.
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Postby Miss WWE 2007 » Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:04 am

My favorite poets are

Poe...
Maya Angelou
Shakespeare
"I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain I’ve held so long
(Erase all the pain till it’s gone)
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I’m close to something real
I wanna find something I’ve wanted all along
Somewhere I belong

I will never know myself until I do this on my own
And I will never feel anything else, until my wounds are healed
I will never be anything till I break away from me
I will break away, I'll find myself today

"-Linkin Park (Somewhere I Belong)


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Postby mitsuki lover » Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:46 pm

Oh Jih you should google The Milton Society.They have a lot of his prose and poetry on line.
Also he wrote three and not two epic poems:PARADIES LOST, PARADIES REGAIN'D,SAMSON AGONISTES.
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