2007-08-02 21:56:12 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
Ooh, Lady of Shalott. Great one. My favorite rendition was in Anne of Green Gables! So funny, and tragic all at once!
2007-08-02 22:01:31 · update #1
The one about not taking the garbage out was a Shel Silverstein one. Another great one-this one hilarious!
2007-08-02 22:02:04 · update #2
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
:)
If you've never read it, I highly suggest you do so!!
Enjoy! :)
2007-08-02 22:03:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Frederick Turner's "The New World" is a science fiction epic poem. It can be difficult getting started with the poem but it's well worth the effort. I don't know of any other contemporary poem that succeeds with so many tropes of epic poems while maintaining a futuristic twist! While it's not my favorite long poem or favorite epic poem, it is definitely the coolest one I've ever read.
2007-08-03 12:13:07 · answer #2 · answered by Annie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's easy, it's also considered the most widely read poem in the English language: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. It was written by Edward Fitzgerald and the original version was 75 quatrains. It contains images that have become catch-phrases and most people don't know that they came from this poem...such as, "the bird is on the wing" and "the moving hand writes and having writ moves on" and probably one of the most romantic verses (found on many posters), "here with a loaf of bread beneath the bow, a flask of wine, a book of verse and thou, beside me singing in the wilderness, and wilderness is paradise enow". If you've never read this one, I highly suggest you do. You can google it and read it anytime you like, but they also sell copies of the poem in book form, complete with very detailed illustrations. You'll probably recognize many parts of it as you read it...and many lines you'll find exceedingly beautiful.
2007-08-05 21:31:23 · answer #3 · answered by Kevin S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Erotokritos by Vincent Kornaros The Poet from Crete.
2007-08-02 22:02:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Outside of the epics (Iliad, Odyssey, Paradise Lost, Ovid's Metamorpheses), I have to go with Hayden Carruth's " Marshall Washer"
2007-08-03 00:22:56 · answer #5 · answered by ObscureB 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's way too easy: There are actually two : The Iliad and Odyssey. The grandest tales ever told!
Leontokarde: Erotokritos is a bit corny I think.
2007-08-02 22:05:07 · answer #6 · answered by Kimon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Howl by Allen Ginsberg
2007-08-03 02:52:52 · answer #7 · answered by Todd 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its a poem i remember reading since junior high school called
"Sarah Cynthia Silvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out", unfortunately, I don't remember who wrote it, but it was really cool poem!
2007-08-02 22:01:09 · answer #8 · answered by guesswh01116 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Iliad.
2007-08-03 05:15:20 · answer #9 · answered by sunshine 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The longest poem that I have ever wrote was called The Four Friends. It was about these friends that prayed and prayed to become musicians. And one day while they were practicing in their yard a musicians ask them to sign a contract. And then on they were known as the Beetles.
2007-08-02 22:47:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋