Dead or alive
2006-06-14 01:52:58 · 24 answers · asked by bonedrii 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Milton and Blake for classic poetry that should really be explored. Milton's Paradise Lost isn't a reading requirement in schools anymore, which is both good and bad. Good, because I don't think a high school classroom environment can really explore the complexity of the epic. Bad because now few people read it. Blake is just beautiful...he seems stuffy and fussy at first, but the more you read the more his truly different ideas come through!
For beautiful, transcendent, and uplifting poetry I love Walt Whitman, dead. And Percy Shelley, also dead.
For makes-you-think and makes-you-confused (but in a really really good way!) T.S. Eliot is a great time! Dead, dead, dead.
For beautiful playing with words, sounds, ideas, and images Poe is the man! VERY dead!
Ann Sexton and Silvia Plath for lovely, wrenching, and depressing poetry! Both dead by suicide.
For thought-provoking poetry I REALLY like Joy Harjo. Alive. She's a pretty fascinating musician, singer-songwriter, and poet.
Actually, I hadn't realized until I answered this that I can think of a TON more....I hadn't known I liked poetry so much! LOL
2006-06-14 04:16:26 · answer #1 · answered by Happy Guesser 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Elizabeth Bishop (The Fish, In the Waiting Rooom, One Art, Invitation to Ms. Marianne Moore)
2006-06-14 12:47:03 · answer #2 · answered by senorita_prohibida 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christine Hamm
Sharon Olds
2006-06-15 00:04:54 · answer #3 · answered by my word 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Allen Ginsberg
2006-06-14 09:22:45 · answer #4 · answered by Merry-Go-Bye-Bye 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Charles Bukowski
2006-06-14 09:15:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mihai Eminescu
2006-06-14 14:02:36 · answer #6 · answered by black_angel_white_tiger 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arthur Rimbaud
2006-06-14 12:57:11 · answer #7 · answered by fandeciné 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mario Benedetti
2006-06-14 10:46:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson
2006-06-14 10:20:56 · answer #9 · answered by Lydia 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Emily Dickinson or Richard Brautigan
both are dead.
2006-06-14 09:10:17 · answer #10 · answered by quasipuca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋