2007-12-03 04:31:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
When I asked this question 6 months ago, I'd never read E.E. Cummings...wow!
2007-12-03 04:57:48 · update #1
Well, based on the comment I read from her, she is looking to understand forms and then break them. So, I would start with some of the formally precise poets: Shakespeare, Robert Frost, W.B. Yeats, Pope (Alexander Pope, as opposed to Benedict), and Andrew Marvell are a small handful. From there, maybe look at some of those whose poetry blows up notions of form: Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings, etc.
I think some of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot works in the middle - using form, but pulling at it and shifting among forms as they work. For easy, rolling verse, Pablo Neruda, Billy Collins, Wallace Stephens, and William Carlos Williams have some good things to read. Also, for sheer mind-expanding linguistic play, Lyn Hejinian has written some fantastic stuff.
This is all only a start; I think a writer - and particularly a poet - can benefit from reading everything s/he can get his/her eyes on.
2007-12-03 06:09:53 · answer #1 · answered by Jeff R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't forget about the contemporaries. William Carlos Williams and Pablo Neruda are good places to start. Also: Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, Andrew Suknaski, Rita Wong
2007-12-03 05:59:22 · answer #2 · answered by lina 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Definitely Walt Whitman.
2007-12-03 05:17:30 · answer #3 · answered by Elaine P...is for Poetry 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-25 09:08:13 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She definitely does have talent. I haven't commented on any of her poems yet, but I've been reading everything you starred of hers. I think she should check out Plath and Levertov.
2007-12-03 04:34:13 · answer #5 · answered by Linz VT•AM 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
A classic advice---> Shakespeare & Donne. =)
2007-12-03 04:47:23 · answer #6 · answered by Dark Dickinsonian 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋