If yours is the same as mine you get 10 points.
2007-02-09 00:44:40 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
wow! we already have a winner within the 1st 7 answers.
Heres a clue, it's not the one about the chinese lady
2007-02-09 00:58:03 · update #1
The Tiger by William Blake. You can't go wrong with that.
2007-02-09 00:53:23 · answer #1 · answered by fuzzinutzz 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Caged Skylark.
Or The Sea and the Skylark.
Or The Windhover.
Or God's Grandeur.
2007-02-09 00:55:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tennysons's The lady of Shalott
Eliot's The Four Quartets
Just about anything by GM Hopkins.
Sorry I couldn't choose just one; they all match different moods and times of my life. I don't have a single favouite outfit so how can I have a single favourite poem!
2007-02-09 01:12:15 · answer #3 · answered by Vivienne T 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know this is probably quite sad, cos there's a huge amount of excellent British poetry out there, but my favourite is actually "The Revenge - A Ballad of the Fleet" by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
2007-02-09 00:59:16 · answer #4 · answered by mdfalco71 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favourite is Some Corner Of a Foreign Field
by Rupert Brooke
Is one of the most moving pieces I have ever read
2007-02-09 09:29:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anni 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well its obviously not worth ten points, as it hasn't been mentioned yet, but my all time favourite poem is "Evangeline" by Longfellow. I first read it in my teens, and it was the first time that I actually understood that a poem really could tell a story. Its so sad I cried.
2007-02-09 07:23:44 · answer #6 · answered by Queen of the Night 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm not going to get the 10 points, but it's Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen.
2007-02-09 04:09:41 · answer #7 · answered by Matt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I LOVE William Blake...my favorite so far is "London"
London
Poem lyrics of London by William Blake.
I wander through each chartered street,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet,
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every blackening church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
But most, through midnight streets I hear
How the youthful harlot's curse
Blasts the new-born infant's tear,
And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse.
2007-02-09 07:19:45 · answer #8 · answered by Melinda 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to have to agree with Matt and pick a Wilfred Owen work, but my favorite is Dulce Et Decorum Est.
2007-02-10 15:48:29 · answer #9 · answered by Kari 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stanzas by Emily Bronte
2007-02-09 01:54:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well Jimminy,
Let me try a couple :
How about Betjeman, with his -
I am a young executive, no cuffs than mine mine are cleaner,
I have a slimline briefcase, and I drive the firms' Cortina.
Or possibly Pam Ayres ?
In Fear of the Butcher -
He says "A pound of steak, dear?"
(I hates him, and he knows it
Or else he'll say "A chicken?"
Here's a fresh one, but we froze it.
Worth a try !
Bob.
2007-02-09 01:06:13 · answer #11 · answered by Bob the Boat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋