Whats your favorite poem??

Question

I'm doing a poetry project and need 50 poems..i would like to know your favorites to help; me get to that bigg number 50. If you would leave a website or book title that would also be nice so that i can put it in my bibliograwphy. THANK YOU!!

Answer 1

"the road not taken" and "stopping by woods on a snowy evening" both by Robert Frost
peace

Answer 2

Without a doubt it would be The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock - the first poem written in the modernist style. Read it aloud sometime. Listen to the brilliance. It is astonishing and as timely now as the day it was written. Pax - C.

Answer 3

My favorite poem is "Two Tramps in Mud Time" by Robert Frost, because I love the last stanza:

But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future's sakes.

I also like "Litany in Time of Plague" by Thomas Nashe and "The Rain it Raineth" by Charles Synge Christopher Bowen (I think).

Answer 4

Here's a couple of poems I like: "If" by Rudyard Kipling, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas, "Annbel Lee" by Edgar A. Poe and "Dulce et decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen. Hope it helps. Good luck with your project!

Answer 5

The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Tennyson
Its really good for using figures of speach and sound devices.
I studied it in grade 10 English, and fell in love with it. Its a little hard to read because its in old english, but the website does a really good job with explaining the story to you in modern day english. I don't know if this is really what your looking for but its my favorite poem.

Answer 6

" The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

" I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud " by William Wordsworth

and for fun:

" The Walrus & the Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll

Answer 7

Sick
by Shel Silverstein


"I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
"I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox
And there's one more--that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut--my eyes are blue--
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke--
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button's caving in,
My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb.
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what?
What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is. . .Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play!"




From Shel Silverstein: Poems and Drawings; originally appeared in Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. Copyright © 2003 by HarperCollins Children's Books.

It's one of my favorites!!!

Answer 8

you can look up poems online...there's way more than 50. but in the meantime ill try to find some good ones for you.

Answer 9

I like William Blake's "The Tyger".

Answer 10

I must admit, I quite like a bit of Sylvia Plath. 'Mushrooms' in particular.