What is your favorite poem?

Question

Who wrote it and what is it about?

Answer 1

Women have many faults
Men have only two
Everything they say
And everything they do

Sorry,but I don't know the author.

Answer 2

Nothing Gold Can Stay - Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf's a flower
But only so an hour
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay



My second favorite poem is The Road Less Traveled also by Robert Frost.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Answer 3

"Out to Old Aunt Mary's" by James Whitcomb Riley. It is the story of two siblings with the one recalling the days of youth when they would go to visit a beloved Aunt. The recalling of the wonderful memories of the scenery along the way and the good food at the Aunt's house. Now, the siblings are old and just remembering those goods times. It is about the relationship of two brothers and their beloved aunt.

Answer 4

The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tennyson based upon Arthurian legend. It is about the Lady Elaine and Lancelot. It always makes me cry because she dies from unrequited love foretold by a prophecy.

Answer 5

Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It was a vision of a "pleasure dome" Coleridge had when he was on opium. Although I'm not fond of drug addiction, I still love this poem.

Answer 6

Quicksand Years by Walt Whitman is my favorite poem:

Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither,
Your schemes, politics, fail, lines give way, substances mock and
elude me,
Only the theme I sing, the great and strong-possess'd soul, eludes
not,
One's-self must never give way - that is the final substance - that
out of all is sure,
Out of politics, triumphs, battles, life, what at last finally
remains?
When shows break up what but One's-Self is sure?

p.s. what's your fav poem?

Answer 7

"SonnetXVlll" known as "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day"- by Shakespeare in 1599 . It can be interpreted as a testament to eternal and undying love .

"Vergangenheit" or "The Past"- by Dietrich Bonhoeffer as written while in a Nazi prison in 1944 , inspired after a visit by his fiancee Maria von Wedemeyer , , as an expression of his attempt to hold onto the past , or recapture it ; wondering if he would loose it completely .

Answer 8

Howl by Alan Ginsberg. You can read about the poem here, it caused quite a stir back in the 1950's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl

Answer 9

The Road Less Traveled by Robert Frost. It's about choices, our journey through life, and not regretting where our individual roads may lead us.

Answer 10

"the mask". Unfortunately, I have not the book with which it is written in as well as the author's name either. Sorry about that. Anyways, it's about how we wear masks to hide ourselves and our feeling and even our own belief's all to make those around us more comfortable. If I find the book, I'll get you the author's name!

Answer 11

mine and....


Chocolate, sweet chocolate
oh how i love thee
so many different kinds
you make me so happy
with nuts,carmel, or all by yourself
each and every kind makes my heart melt
Hershey, Cadbury, or even Nestle
when it comes to chocolate
im not very picky
in milk, on a cake, or even fondue
eveything is better
when drizzled with you



do ya like it?



but i also love "twistable turnable man" by Shel Silverstien