Who's your favourite poet?
Mine is nietzsche.
Mine is nietzsche.
favourite poet?
Nietzsche is NOT a poet, he's a philosophe. My favorite poets are french like Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Verlaine...
I'm not into poetry much, but I think some Walt Whitman poems I've read are great.
I love Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Raven'. But, of course, he wasn't the conventional poet. I like Robert Frost in general.
One of my favorite poets is Robin Morgan. She is a bit more of an extreme feminist than I consider myself to be, but her poetry is incredibly powerful to read. I picked up her anthology Monster in a used book store a couple years ago and its very moving, almost to a disturbing point, because many of her pieces are full of rage that comes through so clearly in her writing. She is a very talented poet.
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Emily Dickinson is my favorite poet. Her stuff on death and things like that are great. Even though she lived in her room durring her writing, her poems still resonate with current events. I love all of her poems. Chek her out
peace
Emily Dickinson is my favorite poet. Her stuff on death and things like that are great. Even though she lived in her room durring her writing, her poems still resonate with current events. I love all of her poems. Chek her out
peace
My favourite poet in
Allam Iqbal
I really love his poetry. He has written in URDU and FARSI the most of his poetry.
Allam Iqbal
I really love his poetry. He has written in URDU and FARSI the most of his poetry.
Oh jeez, where to start. There is Poe, Frost, Whitman, Shakespeare, Milton, Johnson. I am taking English Literature, and that is almost all we have read so far. Poetry is so diverse. For instance Milton's Paradise Lost is a huge poem about a fight between heaven and hell, while Shakespeare wrote love sonnets. Its just awesome.
I loved Paradise Lost by Milton - it's neat to compare the qualities that are considered terrible back when it was written with today's. My favorite poet is either Chaucer (I love his sense of humor), or Samuel Taylor Coleridge (for the Rhime of the Ancient Mariner).
Wallace Stevens & William Carlos Williams are two of my favorites. Good modern stuff.
Bruce Dawe. I don't like poetry, but his poems are about ordinary people.
I don't read poetry. But once it read some work from William Butler ( Yeats ). It was after i saw the film Equlibrium 
. It's very interesting reading i think. Try some of his books if you dont know him.
. It's very interesting reading i think. Try some of his books if you dont know him.I don't pretend to read a lot of poetry, but so far out of what I've read rumi is by far my favorite (here's a few for those who are unfamiliar with him). I think what facinates me about him is the fact that he wrote this stuff around 1200 AD in farsee and it still makes some amount of sence and pertains to the lives of people today. Anyone who can create something that timeless is ok in my book.
lovely poet ...lovely meanings to his poems...his gloomy childhood made him write so...but all his poems are so soulful..
Emily Dickenson.
Scholar's have said that you can actually hum "The Yellow Rose of Texas" to 90% of her poems. Of course now I am doomed whenever I read one.
"I heard a Fly Buzz when I died" is one of the most intense poems ever for me. She is one of those characters I wish I would have met.
Scholar's have said that you can actually hum "The Yellow Rose of Texas" to 90% of her poems. Of course now I am doomed whenever I read one.
"I heard a Fly Buzz when I died" is one of the most intense poems ever for me. She is one of those characters I wish I would have met.
I love Rumi probably more than anyone...and after Rumi, William Butler Yeats, John Ashbery, and Sara Teasdale.
My favorite poet is Ogden Nash because many of his were short and funny. I don't know about the correct punctuation, but here's one I remember:
| Ogden Nash wrote: |
| Candy is dandy
But liquor is quicker |
Robert frost and John Keats are my favourite. I also like Shakespheare's Sonnets and other poems in his Plays but i always find them difficult to understand.
I don't read much poetry, except lyrics, and my favourite lyric makers (in the language of english) are Tuomas Holopainen and Tony Kakko, I guess...
And Arnulf Oeverland is a great Norwegian poet.
And Arnulf Oeverland is a great Norwegian poet.
My favourite poet is William Blake. Something about the underlying theme of dark that is found in his poems that draws me to him. My favourite poem of his is Tyger, and the funny thing is I read the poem in a Wolverine comic and it was just so perfect, both the poem and the setting.
my favourite poet is Oscar Wilde and my favourite poem is "The ballad of Reading Goal"
| Quote: |
| Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow grow cold |
By the way, I love blake too, although i think my favorite of his is the Garden of Love...this is just a section of it...
I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen;
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut
And "Thou shalt not," writ over the door;
So I turned to the Garden of Love
That so many sweet flowers bore.
And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tombstones where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
He's so bleak:) Anyway, definitely my favorite poet is Stephen Dobyns. A lot of his poetry is almost like prose, and frequently it tells a story...
I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen;
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut
And "Thou shalt not," writ over the door;
So I turned to the Garden of Love
That so many sweet flowers bore.
And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tombstones where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
He's so bleak:) Anyway, definitely my favorite poet is Stephen Dobyns. A lot of his poetry is almost like prose, and frequently it tells a story...
| ExaminedLife wrote: |
| I love Rumi probably more than anyone...and after Rumi, William Butler Yeats, John Ashbery, and Sara Teasdale. |
Rumi is my fovorite also.
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some other turkish poets
necip fazil , mehmet akif ,yahya kemal , fuzuli ,
these are from fuzuli
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| Hâsılım yoh ser-i kûyunda belâdan gayrı
Garazım yoh reh-i aşkında fenâdan gayrı Ney-i bezm-i gamem ey âh ne bulsan yele ver Oda yanmış kuru cismimde hevâdan gayrı Yetti bîkesliğim ol gaayete kim çevremde Kimse yoh çevrile girdâb-ı belâdan gayrı Ne yanar kimse bana âteş-i dilden özge Ne açar kimse kapım bâd-i sebâdan gayrı Bezm-i aşk içre Fuzûlî nice âh eylemeyen Ne temettu bulunur bende sadâdan gayrı |
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| Beni candan usandırdı cefâdan yâr usanmaz mı
Felekler yandı âhımdan murâdım şem'i yanmaz mı Kamu bîmârına cânân deva-yı derd eder ihsan Niçün kılmaz bana derman beni bîmar sanmaz mı şeb-i hicran yanar cânım döker kan çeşm-i giryânım Uyadır halkı efgânım gara bahtım uyanmaz mı Gûl-i ruhsârına karşu gözümden kanlu akar su Habîbim fasl-ı güldür bu akar sular bulanmaz mı Gâmım pinhan dutardım ben dedîler yâre kıl rûşen Desem ol bî-vefâ bilmen inanır mı inanmaz mı Değildim ben sana mâil sen ettin aklımı zâil Bana ta'n eyleyen gâfil seni görgeç utanmaz mı Fuzûlî rind-i şeydâdır hemîşe halka rüsvâdır Sorun kim bu ne sevdâdır bu sevdâdan usanmaz mı |
His book, Human Wishes, has inspired a lot of my favorite poets as well. Contemporary poets like Jorie Graham are also worth reading.
Among the oldies, I really like TS Eliot, Walt Whitman, and Gertrude Stein (even though I find Stein oh-so-hard to understand).
Among the oldies, I really like TS Eliot, Walt Whitman, and Gertrude Stein (even though I find Stein oh-so-hard to understand).
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