2006-08-10 09:31:28 · 23 answers · asked by Grimm 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Gerard Manley Hopkins is a great poet. His lyricism and careful use of words seem out of place in a world like we have today.
I am surprised someone liked Goethe because he doesn't translate all that well into English in many cases.
2006-08-10 09:54:10 · answer #1 · answered by Bentley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Judith Viorst
True Love
It is true love because
I put on eyeliner and a concerto and make pungent observations about the great issues of the day
Even when there's no one here but him,
And because
I do not resent watching the Green Bay Packer
Even though I am philosophically opposed to football,
And because
When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the middle of the street,
I always hope he's dead.
It's true love because
If he said quit drinking martinis but I kept drinking them and the next morning I couldn't get out of bed,
He wouldn't tell me he told me,
And because
He is willing to wear unironed undershorts
Out of respect for the fact that I am philosophically opposed to ironing,
And because
If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save,
He says he'd save me.
It's true love because
When he went to San Francisco on business while I had to stay home with the painters and the exterminator and the baby who was getting the chicken pox,
He understood why I hated him,
And because
When I said that playing the stock market was juvenile and irresponsible and then the stock I wouldn't let him buy went up twenty-six points,
I understood why he hated me,
And because
Despite cigarette cough, tooth decay, acid indigestion, dandruff, and other features of married life that tend to dampen the fires of passion,
We still feel something
We can call
True love.
Judith Viorst
2006-08-16 07:41:21 · answer #2 · answered by sweets 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Robert Browning, John Keats, Emily Dickenson, Lord Byron Tennyson.
2006-08-17 02:41:40 · answer #3 · answered by deedleydee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite poet? There are so many that I love to read, but the one that never fails me is Emily Dickinson. she was such a small frail being, and to come out with these poems full of life and love and crazy adjectives makes me wonder... her poems are a guideline for my poetry, the way that she breaks all the rules and doesn't use puncuation or rhyming... i love it... when I write poetry and I am jotting down ideas, i look down and realize that i just wrote a poem.
namaste
2006-08-17 03:18:26 · answer #4 · answered by ERnurse 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self preservation, loyalty, and steadfastness.
Anne Sexton: Hope and Despair. Unfortunately one of the suicide poets. Not just for women.
Keats: Erotic Romance.
e.e. cummings: figure out the language. a completely new style.
2006-08-10 12:38:27 · answer #5 · answered by Bob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ditto Gerard Manley Hopkins. Also T.S. Eliot and Robert Browning.
2006-08-11 08:48:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jim Morrison
2006-08-10 09:37:10 · answer #7 · answered by Notnadia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has to be the great Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, I love the very moving poem " Do not go gentle into that good night " which he wrote when his father was dying. Go to Google and read it over and over until you really understand it.
2006-08-10 19:56:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
William Blake. I most like In The Forest Of The Night.
2006-08-10 16:27:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like Edgar Allen Poe or Emily Dickinson
2006-08-15 14:13:39 · answer #10 · answered by Fallon V 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋