share some of their poems if you like too!
2007-11-11 08:17:58 · 9 answers · asked by maki 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
Rumi
And that is why..
I am a painter,
Painting pictures all the time,
Yet when I set them near your beauty
I want to throw them all away.
I am a sculptor, carving images
and filling each with life,
Yet when I compare these with your beauty
I want to dump them in a fire.
My soul has merged with yours -
Water into water, wine into wine.
Now there is only love
and the scent of your rose perfume.
Every drop of my blood calls out,
"Dye me with the color of your love.
Make me the jewel of your affection."
In this house of water and clay
my heart is in ruins.
O Beloved, don't leave this house
else it will crumble to the ground.
--Rumi
2007-11-11 08:58:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think my favorite poet in general is Langston Hughes. One of his poems I loved the most is called "A Dream Deferred". But, I also loved the poem " Still I rise" by Maya Angelou, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost, and "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg.
2007-11-11 10:38:56 · answer #2 · answered by Taja B 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Shakespeare, of course.
Robert Frost and Edna St. Vincent Millay are my two favorite American poets.
I'm also a big fan of Dylan Thomas and W.B. Yeats.
My favorite poems by them?
Can't choose one or two by Shakespeare, there are too many.
"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "A Line-Storm Song" for Frost.
"Tavern" by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
"The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" by Dylan Thomas.
"The Stolen Child," and "No Second Troy" by Yeats.
I also love "Ozymandias," by Percy Shelley, "Song" by John Donne (despite its overt sexism), "Ode" by Arthur O'Shaughnessy, "Resume" by Dorothy Parker, and "Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou.
2007-11-11 09:09:50 · answer #3 · answered by Rachel P 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In modern times, some of the greatest poets are songwriters.
Janis Ian remains one of my very favorite after all these years:
In her song, "At Seventeen", she writes one of the most compelling passages I've ever read:
"...And those of us with ravaged faces
lacking in the social graces
desperately remained at home
inventing lovers on the phone
who called to say – come dance with me
and murmured vague obscenities
It isn't all it seems at seventeen..."
Check out the links below:
2007-11-11 15:44:31 · answer #4 · answered by gordios_thomas_icxc 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
love's philosophy - percy bysshe shelley - unrequited love written so simply it makes your heart ache,
in the same vein but with a modern twist - creep by radiohead has to have the most beautiful lyric - "you're just like an angel - your skin makes me cry".It doesn't get much more poetic than that
2007-11-11 08:35:30 · answer #5 · answered by Kim W 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Pablo Neruda. I love his poem tonight I can write the saddest lines.
2007-11-11 08:28:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
T.S. Elliot. I also like Edgar Allen Poe.
2007-11-13 04:12:42 · answer #7 · answered by Amber K 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Walt Whitman is perhaps the greatest American poet there ever was.
"Captain my Captain."
2007-11-11 08:26:35 · answer #8 · answered by dude 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
edgar allan poe, he knows what he is doing
2007-11-11 09:17:57 · answer #9 · answered by Aggie (oui, je suis jolie merci) 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋