I love the works of so many... Robert Creeley, e.e.cummings, Saphro, Maya Angelou, Shel Silverstein, Earle Birney, Leonard Cohen... *sigh*
2006-12-30 13:02:27 · 24 answers · asked by Mikisew 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
You mentioned some great ones (I'd love to know how Leonard Cohen come up with the words to "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye". It still echoes for me everytime I hear it. It's rare to find Cohen fans!) Whitman, Emerson, Auden, ah, so many! However, having but one choice, it would have to be e.e. cummings. His style is absolutely magical, his words divine and his wit absolutely priceless. What an incredible amount of love he must have had within him!
"here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)"
Need I say more? I think many people don't realize how humorous he can be as well, so filled with life and wonder and the stuff of imagination. I love so many poets but cummings' output never ceases to amaze me. He has invented some wonderful words as well.
What speaks most to me is his ability to transform the powers of motion, of sound and mood into words:
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Aaaaahhhhhh!! (*Breathes deeply*). Lovely.
2006-12-30 15:22:56 · answer #1 · answered by Me, Thrice-Baked 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Robert Burns
2006-12-30 13:03:57 · answer #2 · answered by alt-country_fan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edgar Allen Poe
2006-12-30 13:04:41 · answer #3 · answered by merlin_steele 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Robert Frost
2006-12-30 13:04:16 · answer #4 · answered by Lov'n IT! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Robert Frost
2006-12-30 13:03:28 · answer #5 · answered by eeyoree rocks2003 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jim Morrison
2006-12-30 13:03:45 · answer #6 · answered by jfoxie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oscar Wilde. Can't explain why, there's just something mesmerizing about his writing style that makes me want to get to know him.
Mihai Eminescu. He's a Romanian poet. Most famous Romanian poet actually. And Iţm Romanian, and I'm a poet as well, so seeing as he had a great influence on me, I think it's reasonable.
2006-12-30 13:06:22 · answer #7 · answered by Cheshire Riddle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Yeats and Maya Angelou.
2006-12-30 13:05:05 · answer #8 · answered by White 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't remember the author but my favorite poem is "Casey at the Bat"
When Casey strikes out at the end of the poem, I can remember that gut feeling of trying so hard to succeed only to have it taken away with one last swing. I can relate to that. Casey at the Bat wasn't really about baseball, I believe it was about man's struggle to succeed against all odds and sometimes, no matter who you are or how good you are, you will fail.
2006-12-30 13:08:24 · answer #9 · answered by Average Joe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Emerson
2006-12-30 13:04:19 · answer #10 · answered by kurticus1024 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋