who is your favourite poet and why?

Answer 1

I have far to many.

Emily Dickinson---for her romanticism
Edgar Allen Poe---for his original darkness, as well as romanticism
William Shakespeare---for being so over the top
Oscar Wilde---for surprising me so often

Answer 2

Dont know about favorite poet but my favorite poem is by J.R.R. Tolkien the poem is in The Lord of the rings.

I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been;

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.

I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see.

For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago,
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.

But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door.

Answer 3

Robert Frost. I find him to be accessible and meaningful, I can come back to his poems again and again and find something new. I particularly like The Road Not Taken:

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 on 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 4

Is there really a question here????

Theres a choice of two

1) Jim Morrisson
cos hes the unknown soldior (and its all over)

2) Dylan Thomas
the song of the mischevous dog (part of)
yet in spite of all this,i have moments of bliss
for i cherish a passion for bones
and although doughtful of biscuit, im willing to risk it,
and love to chase rabbits and stones
but my greatest delight, is to take a good bite
at a calf that is plump and delicious
and if i indulge in a bite and a bulge
lets hope you wont think me too vicious

So I like to add....

cos my heart it is kind and I know you wont mind
if i indulge in some fun
so in heathery fields, where my instinct prevails
ill eternally play and run




In no order

Answer 5

edgar Allan Poe because not only are his works totally strange, but as a person I think that he was very interesting. If you look into his life you can see how he came to create some of the things he did. Plus the fact that a lot of his work was done while he was high is just interesting to keep in mind.

Answer 6

I absolutely adore John Donne. Whilst other poets of his era wrote quite prissy poetry comparing lovers to rosy cheeked shepherdesses, he put his woman next to him in bed. Read Elegie XIX Going to bed.
"Licence my roving hands, and let them go,
Before,behind,between,above, below.
Oh my America my new-found-land
My kingdom, safeliest when one man man'd.
I find that totally mind-blowing, yet erudite, thoughtful' intellectually stimulating.

He is the tops, the jewel in the crown.

Answer 7

Betjeman - the most under-rated real poet of the 20th century.

Answer 8

Edgar Allan Poe no contest. He makes you think and when I first started reading his poetry, I had to have a dictionary and a book on Mythology handy. Just listen to how these words just slip off of your tongue:

And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.

And feel the rage in:

Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend I shrieked upstarting....leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken........take thy beak from out my heart and thy form from off my door....

Beautiful, and don't even get me started on Annabell Lee

I had no idea that there were that many Poe lovers out there.

Answer 9

Sabin es. He is the must real human of any poet I´ve read.

Answer 10

Phillip Larkin, his collection of poems, 'The Whitsun Weddings'.

I want to explain why, but I'm finding it really hard! He takes everyday feelings and experiences, and makes you think about them, and some of his poems are quite humourous. Read 'Ambulances' or 'Sunny Prestatyn' or 'Wild Oats', all in 'The Whitsun Weddings'.