I am working on an extra credit poetry journal for a literature class and I need some examples of serious poetry. Most of the poems that I have found so far are all about death, and I would like to find some others that may deal with unrequited love, suicide, homelessness, etc, these must be poems by known authors and not ones that you have written. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks
2007-03-06 10:12:26 · 8 answers · asked by cool_in_07 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Try looking for poetry by C.K. Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Hugo, and Philip Levine. These are some of the most important contemporary poets (all but Bishop are still alive) and they deal with the full range of human emotion and experience.
2007-03-12 15:54:16 · answer #1 · answered by nbsandiego 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tennison (Alfred, Lord...) was poet laureate for Britain in the 1800s and wrote many of the "stirring noble, chivalrous knights, fight for England" type of poems. However, one of his classic poems is "The Lady of Shallot" about a woman cursed to not look outside. She sits all day weaving, and finds that she can watch the world in her mirror without violating her curse. In the end, she decides to go out and see the world, and dies :
Out flew the web and floated wide,
The mirror crack'd from side to side,
"The curse is come upon me!", cried
The Lady of Shallot.
...
But Lancelot, he mused apace,
He said "She has a pretty face,
God in His mercy, grant her grace,
the Lady of Shallot".
You may recognize "The Mirror Crack'd" used as the title of an old Agatha Christie mystery.
2007-03-06 10:28:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Frost, Edna St Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, TS Eliot, ee cummings, is that enough or should I continue?
2007-03-06 10:20:37 · answer #3 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can try looking for poems written by Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral - they are both Latin-American writers but their work has been widely traslated in English.
2007-03-06 11:08:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I waited nine months just to see his face,
And for me to embrace.
I knew that you could not stay for long,
but i didnt know if i could be strong.
I will never forget that day
When you went with God to stay.
-Anna Greckoe
I love her Poems But i can hardly find her any where!
2007-03-13 13:08:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
listen to wendyf.. and try www.sparknotes.com... they have really good notes on books, poems, and most things you want
or simply look poems of one of the authors wendyf told u
2007-03-14 04:22:32 · answer #6 · answered by Brainiac 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If by Kipling
2007-03-13 16:56:09 · answer #7 · answered by childofthefifties 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TRY ROD MCKWEAN
2007-03-13 19:08:53 · answer #8 · answered by yucca2u 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋