Who/What is your favortie poet/poem?

Question

i like emily dickensons "if you were coming in the fall"
and ANYTHINGGGGG by e.e. cummings.

Answer 1

James Tate

It Happens Like This

I was outside St. Cecelia's Rectory
smoking a cigarette when a goat appeared beside me.
It was mostly black and white, with a little reddish
brown here and there. When I started to walk away,
it followed. I was amused and delighted, but wondered
what the laws were on this kind of thing. There's
a leash law for dogs, but what about goats? People
smiled at me and admired the goat. "It's not my goat,"
I explained. "It's the town's goat. I'm just taking
my turn caring for it." "I didn't know we had a goat,"
one of them said. "I wonder when my turn is." "Soon,"
I said. "Be patient. Your time is coming." The goat
stayed by my side. It stopped when I stopped. It looked
up at me and I stared into its eyes. I felt he knew
everything essential about me. We walked on. A police-
man on his beat looked us over. "That's a mighty
fine goat you got there," he said, stopping to admire.
"It's the town's goat," I said. "His family goes back
three-hundred years with us," I said, "from the beginning."
The officer leaned forward to touch him, then stopped
and looked up at me. "Mind if I pat him?" he asked.
"Touching this goat will change your life," I said.
"It's your decision." He thought real hard for a minute,
and then stood up and said, "What's his name?" "He's
called the Prince of Peace," I said. "God! This town
is like a fairy tale. Everywhere you turn there's mystery
and wonder. And I'm just a child playing cops and robbers
forever. Please forgive me if I cry." "We forgive you,
Officer," I said. "And we understand why you, more than
anybody, should never touch the Prince." The goat and
I walked on. It was getting dark and we were beginning
to wonder where we would spend the night.

James Tate

Answer 2

Cavafy's Ithaka. It's really inspiring, a celebration of life. For every goal or cause you set in your life, what matters most is the voyage you make and the experience you gain from it.

When you set out for Ithaka
ask that your way be long,
full of adventure, full of instruction.
The Laistrygonians and the Cyclops,
angry Poseidon - do not fear them:
such as these you will never find
as long as your thought is lofty, as long as a rare
emotion touch your spirit and your body.
The Laistrygonians and the Cyclops,
angry Poseidon - you will not meet them
unless you carry them in your soul, unless your soul raise them up before you.

Ask that your way be long.
At many a summer dawn to enter
-with what gratitude, what joy-
ports seen for the first time;
to stop at Phoenician trading centers,
and to buy good merchandise,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
and sensuous perfumes of every kind,
sensuous perfumes as lavishly as you can;
to visit many Egyptian cities,
to gather stores of knowledge from the learned.
Have Ithaka always in your mind.
Your arrival there is what you are destined for.
But do not in the least hurry the journey.
Better that it last for years,
So that when you reach the island you are old,
rich with all you have gained along the way,
not expecting Ithaka to give you wealth.
Ithaka gave you the splendid journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She hasn’t anything else to give you.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka has not deceived you.
So wise have you become, of such experience,
that already you will have understood what these Ithakas mean.

(Translation from Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.)

Answer 3

Lochinvar - Walter Scott
Cancer's a funny thing - J.B.S.Haldane
Owl and the Pussycat - Edward Lear
Macavity the Mystery Cat - T.S.Eliot
Inchcape Rock - forgot the poet.
Lucy Gray - William Wordsworth
Father William - Lewis Carrol

Answer 4

William Wordsworth's The Prelude. It's a poetic autobiography of discovery. And it was revolutionary for 1799, when it broke from the formal rhyme and meter that was prevelant.

Answer 5

Robert Frost... I really fell in love with, "The Road not Taken"
It really is just a beautiful simple poem that inspires alot of thought.

Answer 6

My favorite poets are Keats ,Shelley and Wordsworth.

I have read only 1 or 2 poems by them,but I liked it.....

Answer 7

"Annabell Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe. It's so heartbreakingly beautiful

Answer 8

Prayer of a Selfish Child

As I Lay Me down to Sleep,
I pray to the lord my soul to keep,
And I if I die and do not wake,
I pray to the lord my toys to break,
So none of the other kids can play with them...amen

I forgot who wrote it.

Answer 9

e.e. cummings and Edgar Allan Poe

Answer 10

Edgar Allen Poe, Anything by him.