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 Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:05 pm
I believe one of my favorite poets has to be Lord Alfred Tennyson.
His poems are more like stories than anything else, but the wording is so amazing. His works don't always rhyme, something that I very much enjoy as rhyme can sometimes be limiting.
My favorite of his poems (Maud) is some twenty-three pages long. I've posted one of his works below, and while it isn't my favorite I do like it very much. Flower in the Crannied Wall Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower -but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. -Tennyson http://www.online-literature.com/tennyson/717/
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Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:02 am
I cannot say who my favorite poet is becuase I like way to many of them. I love poetry and I do write quite often. If want to see something look me up in the writing arena. I put a few poems up.
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:58 pm
Tennyson is a good poet but I'm too biased to consider him a favorite poet of mine. His writings drove me insane in one of my British literature courses. xp
I adore the french poets. My favorites are Charles Baudeliare and Arthur Rimbaud. Both are a little dark though. Here's my favorite poem by Rimabaud.
Romance
I
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
- One fine evening, you've had enough of beer and lemonade,
And the rowdy cafes with their dazzling lights!
- You go walking beneath the green lime trees of the promenade.
The lime trees smell good on fine evenings in June!
The air is so soft sometimes, you close your eyelids;
The wind, full of sounds, - the town's not far away -
Carries odours of vines, and odours of beer...
II
- Then you see a very tiny rag
Of dark blue, framed by a small branch,
Pierced by an unlucky star which is melting away
With soft little shivers, small, perfectly white...
June night! Seventeen! - You let yourself get drunk.
The sap is champagne and goes straight to your head...
You are wandering; you feel a kiss on your lips
Which quivers there like something small and alive...
III
Your mad heart goes Crusoeing through all the romances,
- When, under the light of a pale street lamp,
Passes a young girl with charming little airs,
In the shadow of her father's terrifying stiff collar...
And because you strike her as absurdly naif,
As she trots along in her little ankle boots,
She turns, wide awake, with a brisk movement...
And then cavatinas die on your lips...
IV
You're in love. Taken until the month of August.
You're in love - Your sonnets make Her laugh.
All your friends disappear, you are not quite the thing.
- Then your adored one, one evening, condescends to write to you...!
That evening,... - you go back again to the dazzling cafes,
You ask for beer or for lemonade...
- You are not really serious when you are seventeen
And there are green lime trees on the promenade...
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:25 pm
Oh that's lovely, though I am sorry you had such a bad experiance with Tennyson.
I don't generally like modern poetry very much, but I came across the poet Beau Sia on HBO one night and came to really enjoy his work. He's a slam poet, so his words are a bit angrier when they are recited, though, perhaps I should say they are more passionate.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/103966/Beau-Sia
I like The Color Of Scarves and I'm So Deep.
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:52 pm
Tennyson. Longfellow. Chesterton. Poe.
heart Also, of course, The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes and The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold.
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:44 am
I have changed my mind. I just found my favorite poet and his name is Edger Allen Poe. I love "the raven"
I think it is an amazing read. It is the type of Poem that sucks you in!
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:27 am
Though more recent than the others, I have to say my favorite is Robert Frost.
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