/lit/ - Literature

Ok, I'll admit it, I did not get all her poems. It seems like her most famous poems were clearly the best (Lady Lazarus, Daddy, and Tulips).

FINAL THREAD

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Enter your five favorite poets in the poll. Order does not matter.

I realize this will be a clusterfuck because there are different kinds of poetry, e.g., it's hard to compare Homer and Yeats, not to mention the monumental impact that the language in which a poem is written has on it. However, I think it's best to treat this as a sort of experiment, the kinks of which we can work out by then doing a poll at the end of every year along with the top 100 books.

A chart will be made so that it can be passed around on /lit/ and expose people to poets they might otherwise not have heard about.

We're currently sitting at just over 110 votes. Let's try to get to 150 before this thread expires.

Cheers, everyone!

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Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –

We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –

Or rather – He passed Us –
The Dews drew quivering and Chill –
For only Gossamer, my Gown –
My Tippet – only Tulle –

We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground –
The Roof was scarcely visible –
The Cornice – in the Ground –

Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity –

only poem I've read by her. I like sylvia better anyways

>jumps into oven
Uhhhhh, okay I guess?

>tfw no daughter to call you daddy and write you a poem