Who? What did you like?
2006-10-12 22:23:26 · 8 answers · asked by tommy w 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
In English, T.S. Eliot, writer of such lines as:
"Let us go then, you and I
when the evening is spread out against the sky."
Also try Sarah Teasdale, Langston Hughes, Shakespeare, and of course, James Wright, perhaps the greatest American Poet of the 20th Century.
Don't limit yourself. There is Rainier Maria Rilke in German, Basho in Japanese, Baudelaire in French, and Li Bai and Du Fu in Chinese.
I love the sweet and clever phrasing of well formed rhythm and the cadences of English pentameter bringing image and emotion to life.
Read Everyone, find the poets you love, and go on from there.
2006-10-13 00:54:30 · answer #1 · answered by Longshiren 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many great poets out there that I love - but I guess my favorite would have to be Edgar Allen Poe - he has such a dark and twisted attitude towards things. I love his short stories as well for the very same reason. But most of the time I will read a large variety of poets.
2006-10-13 05:32:13 · answer #2 · answered by Shadowtwinchaos 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Robert Frost - "The Road Not Taken"
Edgar Allen Poe - "The Raven"
2006-10-13 12:15:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poe and Blake, I just like them. Also, for children's poets, I like Shell Silverstein.
2006-10-13 09:28:10 · answer #4 · answered by Sirius Black 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like Adrienne Rich, I think that I know Fact Of A Doorframe by heart now, she made me discover feminism.
2006-10-13 05:48:35 · answer #5 · answered by ♥Lasha♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes John Donn. His poem "Death Be Not Proud" has such a depth in it...as if challenging death...read it and lemme know if you like it.
DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee, 5
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell, 10
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then;
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
2006-10-13 05:27:51 · answer #6 · answered by CURIOUS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's hard to beat Robert Frost... and that would include a great many works.
2006-10-13 22:52:47 · answer #7 · answered by Mike S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Robert Frost.His poems have a very deep meaning.
2006-10-13 11:42:30 · answer #8 · answered by Kim 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋