Note: The poet you choose must already be dead.
2007-03-18 15:12:33 · 10 answers · asked by Jacques 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Spoon River, I had forgotten about that!
2007-03-18 15:23:37 · update #1
I heard a fly buzz, when I died.....
2007-03-18 15:28:06 · update #2
George Gordon, Lord Byron. Because his was the template for all the angst-ridden, vampiric and down-right filthy writing ever to follow. Any 21st-century Goth owes their outlook on life to the bugger. George, I salute you.
2007-03-18 23:22:07 · answer #1 · answered by - 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have always loved the poems of Robert Louis Stevenson. I still have my "Child's Garden of Verses" from about 40 years ago, when I was a child. My favorite poem of all time is his "Block City" from that book. I still have most of that poem memorized!
oh- I forgot to put Why.... The poems are easy to understand, and don't have a lot of olde English words, or phrases that are not used in our everyday life. The are child friendly and so very special to me.
2007-03-18 19:13:30 · answer #2 · answered by Chipilona 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't remeber the poet of this poem but the poem is "the Goblin Market". It is a really good poem look it up, but keep a clean mind, people of today have dirter mind tthen when it was written.
2007-03-18 16:05:04 · answer #3 · answered by live4literature 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Edgar Lee Masters. I adore Spoon River Anthology and how he created a whole cemetary of characters whose lives interweave and connect and how each of them has a story to tell. C.
2007-03-18 15:20:23 · answer #4 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My favorite poet is Emily Dickenson, because she was observant and from small everyday things she saw in them the more there was to see.
2007-03-18 15:26:40 · answer #5 · answered by Curious 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
William Butler Yeats
I love Ireland and he is so much a part of it's history and lore. He wrote from the heart and you can feel it in his work. My fav poem is Ephemera, look it up sometime.
2007-03-18 15:27:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edgar Allen Poe because his poems and short stories are dark and intresting. Most of his stories and poems like "The Raven" talk about death and make me feel afraid when I read them.
2007-03-18 16:02:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
emily dickinson because of the intensity and imagery...
carl sandburg because of the humor and simplicity...
allen ginsberg because he's the voice of a generation...
dorothy parker because though she's not known entirely for poetry, she slays with wit...
2007-03-19 03:52:55 · answer #8 · answered by reverseparanoia 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Elmer Fudd. Hand down yo. He's the shizznit.
2007-03-18 15:26:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Sorry, my favorite poet is alive and kicking.
2007-03-18 15:25:54 · answer #10 · answered by cola 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋