Favorite poetry

Nadai

Active Member
I've never much enjoyed poetry, but recently I've read the works of several poets: Ovid, my favorite, William Wordsworth, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and a few others, and now I find I'm absolutely in love!
What are some of your favorite poems and poets?
 

Nella

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I love poetry and have recently gotten back into it a work life and children seem to take over your life, then their is time to get back to what you love. May favorite poem is Raven by Edgar Allen Poe and his short stories are vary interesting.
 

Talaria

Member
William Blake and Edgar Allen Poe are my favorite. I can't help but read anything by Robert Frost, he is amazing, and I like Sylvia Plath. I can recite "Nothing Gold Can Stay" from memory. That poem totally burned into my mind after I read"The Outsiders"
 

RLynn

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My life would not be the same without the poetry of W. B. Yeats, William Blake, and T. S. Eliot. Some of my favorite poems are Blake's The Tyger, Eliot's The Wasteland, and Yeats' Into the Twilight.
 

Nadai

Active Member
I love poetry and have recently gotten back into it a work life and children seem to take over your life, then their is time to get back to what you love. May favorite poem is Raven by Edgar Allen Poe and his short stories are vary interesting.
It actually wasn't until after I had children that I started reading poetry. My son picked out a book Ovid's Metamorphosis as a bedtime story and so I read the entire thing well after he fell asleep, I couldn't put it down! I've read Poe in grade school, but none since. Maybe I'll pick him back up.
 

Nadai

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My life would not be the same without the poetry of W. B. Yeats, William Blake, and T. S. Eliot. Some of my favorite poems are Blake's The Tyger, Eliot's The Wasteland, and Yeats' Into the Twilight.
I cried the first time I read Tyger! It was absolutely amazing.
 

RLynn

Active Member
I first heard of Blake in an English lit class in high school, and Tyger was the first poem of his that I read. I remarked to my best friend that Tyger seemed really weird, and he replied that Blake was indeed eccentric but that there was a lot of depth in his poetry, so it was worth taking seriously. Not long afterward, the pastor of my church quoted from Blake in a sermon and described him as one of the most spiritually-minded poets who ever lived. I was hooked.
 

WoodNymph

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Frost, of course, especially Birches and Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening.

Plus, Jabberwocky by Lewis Carrol. My brothers and I memorized it years ago, and found that we could sing it to the tune of the Lone Ranger. My kids love to hear it, both in the superspeed Lone Ranger version and the ultradramatic recitation.
 

Nadai

Active Member
I first heard of Blake in an English lit class in high school, and Tyger was the first poem of his that I read. I remarked to my best friend that Tyger seemed really weird, and he replied that Blake was indeed eccentric but that there was a lot of depth in his poetry, so it was worth taking seriously. Not long afterward, the pastor of my church quoted from Blake in a sermon and described him as one of the most spiritually-minded poets who ever lived. I was hooked.
My sister is great with poetry and a lot of times I have to ask her for her interpritation. She explained Tyger! to me and I fell in love with it. It surprised me how spiritual it was; he didn't just talk about God, but Vulcan as well. This poem is actually one that got me into looking for similarities in different religions in college while studying Anthropology. It's quite amazing how comparable different religions are even amongst cultures that have no connections with others.
 

Myrddin

Well-Known Member
Frost, of course, especially Birches and Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening.

Plus, Jabberwocky by Lewis Carrol. My brothers and I memorized it years ago, and found that we could sing it to the tune of the Lone Ranger. My kids love to hear it, both in the superspeed Lone Ranger version and the ultradramatic recitation.
I absolutely love Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" -- I have that one engraved in my memory. I came upon Robert Frost, and that same poem, from reading Dean Koontz's The Darkest Evening of the Year, and just had to look it up. I like T. S. Eliot, and came upon him the same way -- through Dean Koontz as well. His works are a centre point for The Taking.

I have read Poe's The Raven, and some other poems of his, but Frost and Eliot are definitely my favourites.
 
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