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Who are the 5 greatest poets of all time?

>> No.12980724

>>12980716
Me
Me
Me
Me
Bukowski

>> No.12980745

>>12980716
>homer
no more influential one that him
>shakespeare
obviously
>Blake
probably the best
>Bukowski
no greater genius of the 20th century
>Rupi Kaur
certainly the most potential of the decade probably will be remembered in the same way of blake

>> No.12980771

Fernando Pessoa
Alvaro de Campos
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Alexander Search

>> No.12980799

>>12980716
Whitman
Dickinson
Eliot
Pound
Crane

>> No.12980846

In English:

Shakespeare
Byron
Pope
Yeats
Keats

>> No.12980859

>>12980716
Yeats
Keats
Wordsworth
Spenser
Frost

>> No.12980878

>>12980771
Camões

>> No.12980886

>>12980745
Can you post your favorite Rupi Kaur poem?

>> No.12980888

Homer
Virgil
Dante
Shakespeare
Eliot (unironically)

>> No.12980892

>>12980888
>Eliot (unironically)
I agree with this pre-Waste Land

>> No.12980893

Blake Bukowski Byron Coleridge Shelley

>> No.12980917

>>12980892
Chose him because of Prufrock, Gerontion, Wasteland, and Quartets. There’s a ton of people more talented but no one is nearly as significant or symbolic of “the modern world.”

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>>12980716

>> No.12980931

>>12980888
Homer shouldn't really count because he didn't come up with that himself. The next three I agree with and then it gets harder to say. Milton, Goethe, Pushkin all come to mind

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>>12980886
She has such a command of the english language

>> No.12980942

>>12980745
>>Bukowski
>no greater genius of the 20th century
Penn Warren is criminally underrated as a 20th century poet. He's one of the best, and leagues better than Bukowski.

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>>12980932
I mean you don't actually have to satire her, the work speaks for itself.

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>>12980932

>> No.12980988

>>12980942
This was bait, son.

>> No.12980992

>>12980931
That's like saying Proust isn't a great writer

>> No.12981139

>>12980984
Problem is you need looks as well as victim hierarchy points to get published and promoted without talent. I think it has to be racial as well. I mean I could become a transsexual and could figure out the horsehit they want to hear but I don't think the literati would be adequately enthused by that. Also the public would be unlikely to bite.

>> No.12981144

I'm saying Dante (just because of the nature of the Homeric poems)
Shakespeare
Wordsworth
Keats
Dylan Thomas - fight me.

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12981148

>>12980988
I stopped reading and Bukowski; I shouldn't have.
>>12981139
Fine, how about this one then?

>> No.12981155

>>12980888
This is the only real answer.

>> No.12981159

>>12980799
Who?

>> No.12981196

>>12981148
That's a good one (+checked).

>> No.12981200

Dante
Shakespeare
Keats
Whitman
The girl reading this right now

>> No.12981208

>>12980992
?

>> No.12981223

>>12980716
Do you guys think there's a specific talent people have for poetry, that differs from simply literature? Could most of the great poets also write any ordinary prose well too, or is poetry a unique gift which doesn't carry over onto non-poetic writing? Because I know that great prose writers have no intrinsic gift for poetry, but is the opposite also true? Poets can't write ordinary prose well?

It just baffles me to imagine someone applying themselves to poetry for the first time, and finding much greater success compared to their ordinary, prose writing. For the vast majority, it'd the opposite. God, I wish that were me.

>> No.12981242

>>12981148
stopped reading at* Bukowski

(sorry, slightly drunk and prone to typos)

>> No.12981251

>>12981223
They are quite different skills in my opinion. Tolstoy for example has no poetry in him at all, he can write a beautiful and profound metaphor but only in his prose, which is almost uniquely not lyrical.

An example of a poet that can't write prose is Trakl, he wrote a bunch of beautiful prose poems that show that he is basically incapable of operating in prose, it's technically in paragraphs, but it's just poetry, it follows poetry's ambiguous logic and there is hardly anything resembling a narrative.

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>>12980888
>took this long for someone to say Dante

You are all turds.

>> No.12981495

>>12981251
What do you think the difference in skill is? What factor makes someone suited for one over the other?

Also, how does a budding writer know which one is better for them? The one they feel more comfortable in, or have better success with? How do I know which one to commit myself to? I feel like I'm far better at prose, but I also felt that would be ordinary for anyone, and that by not practising poetry I'd be failing to uncover a potential connection with it that I'd attain later on.

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12981502

>no Tennyson
>no Browning
>listing Bukowski unironically

This thread is pleb central

>> No.12981522

>>12981495
I couldn't really explain what I think the difference is, because writing either of them is an intuitive sort of process. Poetry has this extremely ambiguous quality to it, it doesn't follow normal logic, it's not narrative, it's not explanation, it's just heterogeneous things in association, image, emotion, story, idea, sound, rhythm,etc. tied together one after the other, in a way that makes a compelling whole. Prose has a more regular and sober way about it, but can reach moments of expressive depth just as deep as poetry, through a longer and more literal fashion.

i've aways been bad at writing prose, and Im not particularly good at poetry either, but that's definitely where I lean towards- both my own appreciation of what I write and other people who have seen my stuff say the poetic quality is dominant.

As for what you should do, just do whatever feels natural to you, but also give some time to developing other skills, you never know. Some people don't take to an artform right away but with effort they find they love it.

>> No.12981525

>>12981502
>Tennyson
lmao how's high school english going faggot