I have heard many names but I am really trying to just find an author that is my favorite. Any help would be appreciated.
2007-05-16 03:12:18 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
I guess you need to find out what you're into- Most of the poets mentioned here are exemplary but immensely different from each other. For instance, if you are into the surreal then Edgar Allan Poe is your guy or (a personal favorite)- Robert Browning.
For the methaphysical poets - I like John Donne
I also like William Blake
Sylvia Plath appeals to the angst ridden
I guess its just a matter of finding a poet who best suits your temperament.
Here's directory link that can make browsing a lot easier
2007-05-16 03:58:25 · answer #1 · answered by Griffin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pablo Neruda, Thylias Moss, Margaret Atwood, Daisy Freid, W.B. Yeats, Gregory Corso, Ted Kooser, Wislawa Szymborska, Baudelaire, James Wright.....
2007-05-16 10:51:13 · answer #2 · answered by parrisrose 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Brad Leithauser.
2007-05-16 10:20:20 · answer #3 · answered by Dinah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like any other author, the poet that suits you is gonna be
a matter of what you like ---- here's a couple names if it helps:
Lord Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Elizabeth
Barret Browning, Carl Sandburg, Lord Byron (throw in Keats
and Shelley), Robert Frost and bunches and gobs more
2007-05-16 10:25:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edgar Allen Poe
2007-05-16 10:14:46 · answer #5 · answered by TrophyWife 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Feeling down and a little bit sad - Rossetti!
Need a little bit of uplifting - Maya Angelou!
Wise words - John Donne
Romance - Keats, Shelley, Rossetti, Byron
Theology/War/Politics - John Lennon/Dylan/Tennyson
Poetry can be found in the strangest places - try Holy Books, Songs, Graffitti - but the best is probably in your head!
Write it down - if you have lived it - it will be wonderful!
2007-05-16 10:21:06 · answer #6 · answered by isobellistowel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Philip Larkin
2007-05-16 11:39:29 · answer #7 · answered by Lee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Robert Burns
http://www.heartoscotland.com/Categories/RobertBurns.htm
My favourite poem by him is Red Red Rose.
Also, I hear Walt Whitman is good.
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/biographymainindex.html
Cheers
2007-05-16 10:17:04 · answer #8 · answered by Daft One 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
2 Pac, Eminem, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg. All good poets, only in a different way.
2007-05-16 10:19:36 · answer #9 · answered by Zack 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Byron
Shelley
Frost
Langston Hughes
Wilmot
Poe
2007-05-16 10:57:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋