I am talking about poets only the great ones any century
2006-10-10 15:50:19 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I ask this Questions for all you poets and poem lovers out there. There are never silly question just silly answer.Thank you for your answer it open my eyes to poets I never new.It is in how you ask the question that gives you the best answer.I could of said who is your favorite poet.I would of got a different mental answer from people, get it.
2006-10-11 14:18:15 · update #1
Tupac
2006-10-10 15:57:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
hmm, great question . . .
Well, you could start with the Greeks, and the two best might be Homer for epic poetry and Sappho for the lyrical poem.
You could go further back in time to Enheduanna of the Sumerians.
There are hundreds of great Chinese poets - maybe Li Po is one of the best.
In the Japanese, Ono no Komachi was the only woman of the 5 immortal poets. Fujiwara no Teika might be the greates male poet.
Of the Italians, maybe Dante.
The British - perhaps Shakespeare . . .in later times, maybe Byron.
Americans - maybe Stanley Kunitz. I like Olga Broumas. Then there's Robert Creeley, Gary Snyder, W. S. Merwin . . . etc.
Russians . . .Pushkin . . .Anna Akmatova . . .
It could be debated for a very long time . . .those are just some initial thoughts.
2006-10-10 16:07:40 · answer #2 · answered by a_blue_grey_mist 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
2006-10-10 16:45:50 · answer #3 · answered by DeborahDel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
but dont you think this is such an imposible question to be answered right by any body on earth,
we only have great poet but no one is the best,
well i will say you should try and find out about the following great poets, they are part of the people that saved my life span,
Rainer Maria rilke- letter to a young poet,
charles bukowski- love is a dog of hell
rudyard kipling- if.
segun Akiolu - where river sing a song
wole soyinka - telephone conversation
i think i will stop here, but please find out about this crazy great poet and will understand why i recomend them.
2006-10-10 16:55:57 · answer #4 · answered by young king 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Robert Burns
2006-10-10 16:52:17 · answer #5 · answered by fluorescentnz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arthur Rimbaud
2006-10-10 18:00:24 · answer #6 · answered by beelziesluv@sbcglobal.net 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
properly, it definitely relies upon...artwork is formless, consequently it could purely income its elegance by eyes. which skill all human beings has their very own critiques --unfavorable and valuable-- on a poem (or the different style of artwork), so there is not a sparkling superb poet in historic previous or the international. yet as quickly as I had to wager it would be Shakespeare using fact of his popularity, uncooked skills, and plentiful effect on the poetic society and writing often.
2016-10-19 04:32:04 · answer #7 · answered by jaisigh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pablo Neruda
2006-10-10 16:01:02 · answer #8 · answered by sunshine 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
EE Cummings had the greatest influence for me. Great poetry is almost like math, gives us intellectual faculties and thought processes we never could have had before
2006-10-10 16:39:47 · answer #9 · answered by Nan one one 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know bout the greatest but I personally love Robert Frost. His poems are so meaningful.
2006-10-10 15:53:11 · answer #10 · answered by The Late Night Scribbler. 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋