Who is your favourite poet and why?

Question

I love Sylvia Plath as her poetry is dark and got a double meaning!
Thank you for all your answers!

Answer 1

Tennyson. Ulysses is one of my all-time favorites, along with the Lady of Shalott. As for an American poet, Edgar Allan Poe does "spooky" very well (Think "The Raven"). Some of his less famous works aren't bad. either. I've always liked El Dorado.

Answer 2

My favourite poet is Sylvia Plath as I love the technique of using the words in the poem and the poem touches the heart.

Answer 3

my absolute favourite poet of all time is probably harri webb.

when i was about sixteen years old i opened a poetry magazine and to my great surprise found a poem which was about a place i knew quite well.

it was an excellent poem: maybe not the best i'd ever read, but of course having a poem written about somewhere you've been gives major props.

over the next few months i realised that not only was the poem about somewhere i knew; it was written by somebody i had seen on the street of my hometown a few times (he was the librarian in the next town up the valley).

i even walked past the house he used to live in (the house where the poem had been written) on my way home from school.

in my twenties i got to know harri quite well. he even admired some of my poems (and helped me with one or two of them).

harri died in 1994. i know where he is buried, but i have never been able to bring myself to visit his grave.

he wasn't the best poet i ever read, not quite even the best poet i ever met. but he was very very good, and he was my friend.

Answer 4

The Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is certainly one of may favourites, I love alot of his poetry namely The Masque of Anarchy, To a Skylark & Prometheus Unbound.

Answer 5

Odysseus Elytis

Here, in the middle of the road
it has come the time to confess
what I have always longed is else than that
and I had set out for a different journey

For real or not
I speak to you and I confess
like I have been someone else and not I
through the life I draw my way.

No matter how careful one is
no matter how hard he chases it
it will always, always be too late
for he has not a second life .

Answer 6

e. e. cummings. Because he defies conventions.
Few critics dare wrestle with some of his poems like this one:

am was

am was. are leaves few this. is these a or
scratchily over which of earth dragged once
-ful leaf. & were who skies clutch an of poor
how colding hereless. air theres what immense
live without every dancing. singless on-
ly a child's eyes float silently down
more than two those that and that noing our
gone snow gone
yours mine
. We're
alive and shall be:cities may overflow(am
was)assassinating whole grassblades,five
ideas can swallow a man;three words im
-prison a woman for all her now:but we've
such freedom such intense digestion so
much greenness only dying makes us grow


yes, that is my great poet

Answer 7

Tupac Shakur
his poetry is from the heart and he wrote about the inequalities surrounding him.

Answer 8

I rather like Hillaire Belloc at the moment. he has away of taking the commonplace and creating something magical. 'Twelfth Night' for example..just a walk or something spooky?

Answer 9

I like Edgar Allen Poe. The reason for this is because his poem The Raven is my favourite poem.

Answer 10

E.B. Browning, most beautiful written word..... How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.... Man, even my copy of the book these poems are bound in is lovely, awesome!