Can you refure some good poetry?

Question

I am open to any type of author/subject.

Answer 1

All of e e cummings poetry is great, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke, and the romantic poets are wonderful: Whitman, Wordsworth, all those guys. Sylvia Plath is great, along with Anne Sexton are very interesting too. My favorite poet is Charles Bukowski, although he is a little vulgar at times. "Hemingway, Drunk Before Noon" is great. Look it up.

Answer 2

Anything by the following (for starters, anyway!):
Robert Frost - Stopping in the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Marvin Bell - These Green Turning to Yellow
Emily Dickinson - (too much to choose from)
Tom Waits - Blue Valentine
Joni Mitchell - Blue

Answer 3

Ogden Nash writes great humorous poetry. Think Shel Silverstien for adults.

Robert Burns--Scottish poetry

The Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spenser. If you are into epic poetry this is great. It's really long, so I'd recommend an abridged version.

Answer 4

William Blake writes wonderful poetry such as "The Tyger"

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Philip Larkin's poems are very, very good and funny, and a good refutation of any dope who goes around saying poetry is stupid or boring.

Look for one called "This Be the Verse."

Answer 7

pablo neruda is a heartbreaker

i'm gonna be crucified by the guardians of 'Pure' poetry here for saying this,.........i liked jewel's collection of poetry "a night without armour". it's free of pretense. i read it a couple years back in my teens, must say she had a wonderful impact on my life.

Answer 8

Any of Poe's poems; I think that the romantic ones are overlooked since he was a horror writer.

Answer 9

from the european poetry Schiller and Oscar Wilde are really worth reading.

Answer 10

"Lady Claire" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Second Favorite)
"The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe (Really good, but not a favorite)
"The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes (This is MY favorite)