what is your favorite poem?

I don't have a single favorite. Therefore, I'm free to have one for everyday. However, I can recommend some to you by some authors I have come to keep on my own book shelves:

"A Blessing" by James Wright
http://www.sover.net/~nichael/nlc-poetry/jw1.html

"Her Kind" by Anne Sexton
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/annesexton/13097

"The Forgotten Dialect Of The Heart" by Jack Gilbert
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/?wid=7109

"Tide of Voices" by Lynda Hull
http://www.versedaily.org/2006/tideofvoices.shtml

"Aubade" by Philip Larkin
http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Philip_Larkin/389

"Crater Lake" by Louise Glück
http://www.slate.com/id/2120967/

"Gacela Of Unforseen Love" by Federico Garcia Lorca
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eeblet/sets/72157594415982437/

2007-05-07 15:10:06 · answer #1 · answered by Dancing Bee 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋

The Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll.

my mom, Linda Shelley Whiting, is my favorite poet but that opinion is probably somewhat biased. Carol Lynn Pearson possibly as a rival to the mom.

2007-05-07 16:03:08 · answer #2 · answered by rbwmail 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋

Robert Herrick is my favorite poet and my favorite poem is his, TO DAFFODILS "Fair daffodils, we weep to see you fade away so soon. As yet the early rising sun has scarce attained it's noon." He also wrote some excellent poems about the fairies, such as OBERON'S FEAST. Here is a segment from the middle of it.

"The elves present to quench his thirst
A pure seed-pearl of infant dew,
Brought and besweetened in a blue
And pregnant* violet; which done
His kitling* eyes begin to run
Quite through the table, where he spies
The horns of papery butterflies,
Of which he eats, and tastes a little
Of that we call the "cuckoo's spittle."

2007-05-07 16:04:45 · answer #3 · answered by nowyat 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋

I have several favorite poems:
"The Tiger" by William Blake
"To a Mouse" by Robert Burns
"The Spider and the Fly" by Mary Howitt
"The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear
"The Arrow and the Song" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe

2007-05-08 01:30:28 · answer #4 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋

Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
Strange Fits of Passion I Have Known by William Wordsworth
Annabell Lee, Lenore, To Hellen, The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe...

Yeah, so one of my favorite poets is E.A. Poe...

2007-05-07 14:38:42 · answer #5 · answered by Dee 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋

But in her web she still delights To weave the mirror's magic sights, For often through the silent nights A funeral, with plumes and lights And music, went to Camelot; Or when the Moon was overhead, Came two young lovers lately wed. "I am half sick of shadows," said The Lady of Shalott. - From The Lady of Shallot by Tennyson

2016-05-17 23:17:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

"The calm cool face of the river/Asked me for a kiss"
-"Suicide's Note" by Langston Hughes

Also "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes, "Facing West from California's Shores'' by Walt Whitman, or anything by Jack Kerouac.
My favorite poet is between Langston Hughes and Jack Kerouac (they're both awesome!)

2007-05-07 16:41:02 · answer #7 · answered by kkayona 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋

"The Road Not Taken" by Frost, I keep a copy of it on my "favorites" list, so I can read whenever I want. I also love "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", by Frost. I love his poems.

2007-05-07 16:21:23 · answer #8 · answered by b_friskey 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost ... great poem, terrific rhyme and rhythm, terrific meaning, "and miles to go before I sleep"

2007-05-07 14:39:58 · answer #9 · answered by John B 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋

The Raven

2007-05-07 14:43:38 · answer #10 · answered by just browsin 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋

what is your favorite poem?

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