Tell me something that has a message. something that really made you read it multiple times, making you commit it to memory. Tell me a poem that meant something to YOU.
2007-05-11 12:20:12 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
Traveling through the Dark by William Stafford
Behaving Like a Jew by Gerald Stern
Daddy by Sylvia Plath
Dancing on the Grave of a Sonofab++++ by Diane Wakowski
Howl by Allen Ginsberg
Anything by William Stafford, David Risbee, Sharon Olds, Laura Jensen, Louise Gluck, Cleopatra Mathis . . . .
P.S. Coming Down from my Father by James Dickey
2007-05-11 12:59:45 · answer #1 · answered by whisper2roar 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Go far, come near
You still must be
The centre of your own
Small mystery
That poem composed many centuries ago has a lasting message. One may strive to possess the world, one may poor, whatever you do, no matter how much struggle, you are still simply you. Death levels all in rest. everyone is a mysterious unique creature. And that is all we need to know.
2007-05-12 20:57:57 · answer #2 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as contemporary poetry goes, one of my favorites is "Merengue" by Mary Ruefle, just because of the way it really makes you think and gives you something to ponder. I also like "Each Bone of the Body" by Frank Paino because of its imagery, but it's rather lengthy, and "Le Coursier De Jeanne d'Arc" by Linda McCarriston never fails to give me the chills (even though the title is in French, the poem is in English). "Oatmeal" by Galway Kinnell is funny and imaginative, and "A Song on the End of the World" by Czeslaw Milosz is also very thought-provoking.
2007-05-11 12:35:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love the poem "*****" by Carolyn Kizer. It's awesome!
So I just realized that I was edited so to let you know, the word is "witch" with a "B"
2007-05-11 12:38:34 · answer #4 · answered by poladottie 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Please clarify whether by modern you mean contemporary poetry (written recently, by currently living poets) or whether you mean Modernist era poetry.
2007-05-11 12:30:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I LIKE ROBERT FROST, NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY .....
Natures first green is gold,
her heart is hue to hold;
but only for an hour,............................ ( that was some of it)
2007-05-11 12:29:44 · answer #6 · answered by Sherie_x3 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋