When I'm asked, I usually say Tennyson or Bukowski, depends on the mood I'm in.
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Anonymous2009-09-01 10:12
Well, it's not like I've read any more than one poem by any given poet that I like. Maybe Keats
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Anonymous2009-09-01 14:29
No matter how many poetry courses I have taken or books I have read, my answer remains the same: Shel Silverstein.
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Anonymous2009-09-01 16:07
Robert Frost.
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Anonymous2009-09-02 21:50
Yeats or Poe. Then of course, there's Neruda (everyone likes Neruda), and Plath was pretty good too.
But I suppose that the number one spot should go to Dr. Seuss. Not only did he write pure rhyming nonsense, but he convinced an entire nation that the nonsense was actually good for children to read. 10 points for his mastery of bullshit.
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Anonymous2009-09-03 13:56
Edward Lear or Dr. Seuss.
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Anonymous2009-09-04 8:54
Giacomo Leopardi.
L'infinito
"Sempre caro mi fu quest'ermo colle,
e questa siepe, che da tanta parte
dell'ultimo orizzonte il guardo esclude.
Ma sedendo e mirando, interminati
spazi di là da quella, e sovrumani
silenzi, e profondissima quïete
io nel pensier mi fingo, ove per poco
il cor non si spaura. E come il vento
odo stormir tra queste piante, io quello
infinito silenzio a questa voce
vo comparando: e mi sovvien l'eterno,
e le morte stagioni, e la presente
e viva, e il suon di lei. Così tra questa
immensità s'annega il pensier mio:
e il naufragar m'è dolce in questo mare"
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Anonymous2009-09-07 7:15
Rumi
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Anonymous2009-09-08 22:59
This is my first time on /book/.
Yeats? Bukowski? Tennyson? I like this place.
Is saying John Berryman going to get me kicked out?
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Anonymous2009-09-08 23:17
T.S. Eliot.
I also like Ginsberg, but none of the other beats.
On the contrary, anon, Berryman is enjoyable :) Welcome to /book/, I'm sure it take stronger hold on your heart than any other board on 4chan... if you're well-read and genuinely enjoy literary discussion :)
>>13 That's good to know, I think I'll stick around. Also >>15 you sure showed him! Only two hours after he corrected himself!
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Anonymous2009-09-11 3:37
You can't edit posts on 4chan.
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Anonymous2009-09-18 12:49
Rimbaud
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Anonymous2009-09-19 6:11
Baudelaire
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Anonymous2009-09-19 12:33
2 pac
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Anonymous2009-09-19 17:35
Rimbaud, Baudelaire, im new to /book/ too, and I already feel im going to love this place.
Except for the grammar fights, that's silly guys quit it
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Anonymous2009-09-20 5:44
Anyone here like Billy Collins? It's the only American poet I know quite well. (Native favorites are Ingmar Heytze, Arjen Duinker and Jan Hanlo)
Besides, do you people genuinely like classic poetry like Yeats and Rimbaud? Cos it's so damn hard to get into, even if it sounds nice. (I'll make an exception for Baudelaire, he is just cool)
The only poets with which I have any real experience are Herbert and Donne, so I suppose I'll say them, even though I don't really care for Donne so much. Donne is often cringe inducingly self-absrobed and pathetic in his depression, Herbert is at least interesting.
I personally have little experience with genuine enjoyment of the poetry of Yeats, or Wordsworth or Tennyson or Byron. And I'm not just being savage. Whilst I'm sure that if I were to study them in depth I would find something I could relate to, there is nothing on the surface to compell me to do so. I have no real interest in the romantic poets. Having said that I have no real interest in the metaphysical poets, but then, I was forced to study them.
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Anonymous2009-09-29 19:38
e. e. cummings
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Anonymous2009-10-01 11:58
My favourite poem.
"Roses are red, violets are blue,
I'm using my hand,
But I'm thinking of you"
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Anonymous2009-10-01 12:17
Coeds are Sexy, My balls are blue
I'm using my hand,
But I'm thinking of you
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Anonymous2009-10-03 0:02
Ezra Pound, working my way through the Cantos and loving it. I've gone back to some of his translations of Arnaut Daniel and some troubadour poetry, all fucking brilliant
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Anonymous2009-10-04 16:44
>>25
Shakespeare is heavy handed and kind of droll in my opinion.
Whatever floats your boat though.
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Anonymous2009-10-04 16:44
Where is a good place to start for someone new to Bukowski?