Your Favorite Poet and Poem by them?

Question

Who is your favorite poet and poem?
mine
Robert Frost -
The Road Not Taken

Answer 1

Favorite Poet- Edgar Allan Poe
Favorite Poem- Jaberwocky by Lewis Carrol

btw- The Road Not Taken was set to music by someone. my choir at university sang a version of it, but it may have been one of us that composed it. you should check it out.

Answer 2

I think "If" by Rudyard Kipling is the best poem ever written, it rhymns and scans perfectly without resorting to hideously twisting the text. The language is a little old fashioned now but still feels fairly natural. It also sums up how I personally feel life should be lived. If you are not familiar with it, your probably at least know the first line, "If you can keep you head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you" I also have to confess a bit of affection for John Betchmins, "Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough." I lived in Slough for many years and it's actually a great town to live and work in, I loved it there. Betchamin was just a pompous snob who didn't like the idea of common people owning property. However it is a very well contructed poem.

Answer 3

It's hard to chose. I have several favorites, I can think of

William Ernest Henley - Invictus

A.E. Houseman: A Shropshire Lad -
The Wind’s Twelve Quarters

Emily Dickenson - Curious Wine

Poul Anderson - The Queen of Air & Darkness

Ursula K. LeGuin - The Song of the Dragon's Daughter

Ogden Nash - The Tale of Custard the Dragon

Answer 4

With such an eclectic mind, I cannot single out one from another. Choosing a favorite poet is like asking to choose a favorite star in the sky. There are some, that I comprehend better then others but I appreciate them all.

Answer 5

Edgar Lee Masters- Fiddler Jones

Answer 6

Not an easy choice, but I'd have to say "If" by Rudyard Kipling. If ever a man were to model his life after a poem, this one would be it. In case you haven't seen it, here it is:

[IF]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

Answer 7

Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Answer 8

I always have the imagery of Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee".
That poem is like a sad but pretty memory in my mind.

Answer 9

The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. I know it is a standard answer but it is really my favorite. The rhyming structure is so complex it is beautiful.

Answer 10

hard to pick a favorite, but go check out paul celan's untitled poem beginning "your hand full of hours"

another one would be kay ryan, almost anything by her