What’s your favourite poem?

Question

I just read The Raven and want to find more that are just as brilliant

Answer 1

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you wake in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft starlight at night.

Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
(Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die!
Mary Frye (1932)

Answer 2

The Raven, Annabel Lee anything Poe

Answer 3

The Raven is ace! I like The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson and Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

Answer 4

Every time I read WB Yeats' "The Second Coming" I get chills. Seriously, looking it up for you I got chills.

TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Other great poems include the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, The Wanderer (Read THIS when you feel like wallowing in a bad mood!), and just about anything by Keats. But Yeats is still my number one favorite poet of all time.

Edit-
Wow, I must be the only one around here who likes Yeats! Thumbs down for telling you what my favorite poem is? Tough room.......

Answer 5

most of Federico Garcia Lorca's work. My favourite is called "after a walk"

asesinado por el cielo
entre las formas que van hacia le seirpe
y las formas que buscan el crystal
dejare crecer mis cabellos

con el arbol de muñones que no canta
y el niño con el blanco rostro de huevo

con los animalitos de cabeza rota
y el agua harapienta de los pies secos

con todo lo que tiene cansansio sordomudo
y mariposa ahogada en el tintero

tropezando con mi rostro distinto de cada dia
asesinado por el cielo


murdered by the sky
among the forms that go toward the serpent
and the forms that seek the crystal
I will let my hair grow

with the tree of stumps that does not sing
and the boy with the white face of egg

with the small animals of broken head
and the water, dressed in rags but with dry feet

with all the bone-tired, deaf and mute things
and butterfly drowned in the ink bottle

bumping into my different face different each day
murdered by the sky

Answer 6

Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
The Mask of Anarchy by Percy Shelley
My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth
The Prologue by Anne Bradstreet
Sonnet 130 (My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun) by William Shakespeare
Annabel Lee and Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe

Answer 7

my fave type are the world war poems and i havent read poetry in ages... but i remember a poem i read when i was about 10 and remember so clearly lol. its a funny poem...

i come before you
to stand behind you
to tell you something
i know nothing about
on monday
which is good friday
there will be a mothers meeting
for fathers only
bring your own seats
we will sit on the floor
entrance is free
you pay at the door
Anon

im not sure if thats 100% correct lol but its just kinda always stuck with me lol. weird huh lol

happy reading =]

Answer 8

I really like Tennyson's Idyls of the King series, also Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. For excitement and adventure you can't beat Beowulf - Seamus Heaney has written a modern version.

Answer 9

Anything by Poe is good, but I also like Rudyard Kipling.Byron, and Wordsworth. The Rime(sic) of the ancient mariner by Coleridge is a great poem too.

Answer 10

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Elliot

Answer 11

Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas I think, its a great poem whoever wrote it or whatever its called!