Who is your favorite poet?

Question

Personally, mine is Dorothy Parker. But who is yours, what poems have they written, and why do you feel they convey their feelings best in poetry? Just wondering.

Answer 1

Hard to just limit it to one.

I grew up reading Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Frost and I still go back and read them regularly.

I love Rossetti. I've constantly re-read Amy Lowell, James Wright, Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Vallejo, Ted Hughes, John Berryman, W. S. Merwin, W. H. Auden.

Of the contemporaries, I read Jack Gilbert, Heather McHugh, Louise Gluck, Mary Jo Bang, R. T. Smith, Kathleen Jamie, Roddy Lumsden, Dorianne Laux, Reginald Shepherd and so many others.

Answer 2

Robert Frost ; Fences make good neighbors.
The Gingham Dog and Calico Cat.
For my 4Th birthday my Grandfather gave me The Child Craft Book of Poetry. I learned to read from that book and my favorite one became The Gingham Dog and The Calico Cat.
Did you know they had a terrible spat,
The next morning where they had sat
There was no sign of the cat or pup
Some folks say they ate each other up.

This is just the last stanza of course. Thanks for the memories.

Answer 3

John Milton, i love the philosophy conveyed through his poetry

Answer 4

Karel Jaromír Erben

Answer 5

My favorite poem is "The Goblin Market"- Christina Rossetti

Answer 6

Well, I would say José Maria Heredia, with "Oda al Niagara" and Edgar Allan Poe, with "Annabel Lee"

Answer 7

Oscar Wilde

Answer 8

Edgar Allen Poe. Poetry can be beautiful and dark. "The Cask of Amontillado" is especially powerful.

Answer 9

For me it's Walt Whitman. Whitman was the poet of the common man and woman. He used everyday language. For him nothing was shameful. And his writing is beautiful. "Song of Myself" (section 6 is my favorite piece of poetry bar none.)

Answer 10

John Milton and Wordsworth

Ghaalib

TW K