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Whats your favourite poet and why?
Whats your favourite poem from him, and overall?
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>> No.13273022
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>>13272825
robert graves. i don't really have one favourite, this is a good'n

what's your fav rimbaud then? highest tower?
do you read french?

>> No.13273040

Burnt Norton by Eliot
La fenêtre s'ouvre by Jacob
Oblación Abracadabra by Herrera y Reissig

>> No.13273112

An Octopus by Marianne Moore

>> No.13273159

>>13273022
I read french, learned it specifically to read poetry.
My favourite poem from rimbaud is either "Asleep in the valley"
or
"It was springtime"
The last stanza of it was springtime is probably one of the best things ive ever read concerning poetry, pure feeling.

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>>13272825
William Butler Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium

>> No.13273208

>>13273186
I've been meaning to read this for so long. Maybe I'll get it then.

>> No.13273214

>>13273208
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43291/sailing-to-byzantium

>> No.13273223

>>13273214
Thanks. Would you recommend me a good collection of his works in particular, please?

>> No.13273240

>>13273223
The Collected poems of W.B Yeats, which I own physically. And W.B Yeats: Poems selected by by Seamus Heaney.
I need to buy another collection soon when I finish my current books. But whatever you can find, buy.

>> No.13273244

>>13273240
Thank you, anon!

>> No.13273246

Baudelaire, Le Vin des amants

>> No.13273255

>>13273244
no problem, anon.
While I'm here, I'd recommend reading some of Oscar Wilde's poems. Particularity Le Jardin.

>> No.13273260

Seamus Heaney is GOAT, well worth the heaps of praise

>> No.13273265

>>13273255
I've read Wilde's poetry. I loved it. I've not read that much anglophone poetry, though, so thanks for the rec, I'll make sure to read that poem again.

>> No.13273266

>>13273260
Was never a big fan of Seamus Heaney's poetry. Just never appealed to me.

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>>13273265
You're welcome.
This was a very comfy and wholesome engagement. Hope you know you've made my day a little better, anon.

>> No.13273278

>>13273266
completely understandable, I live and breathe his early Hughes-esque work but his later poetry is completely lacking to me

>> No.13273287

>>13273278
Casualty is a good poem.
The rest have very weak rhyme schemes and I dislike that.

>> No.13273291

I have a big tome of everything Geoffrey Hill has written, what am I in for lads? Is it accessible to a relatively new poetry reader?

>> No.13273298

>>13273287
that's very fair, desu I intensely dislike most rhyme schemes and when they're there I prefer them to be weak

who do you lean more towards anon?

>> No.13273305

>>13273159
i don't like it much as a language (not as much as english), BUT there are two decent french poets i'm pretty sure about, baudelaire and villon.

>> No.13273308

>>13273298
the rhyme scheme I use for my types of poems, and often used in Irish poems or a similar style is used. To give an example:
As swords of steel weaken to dust
while ancient waters freeze
and the streets of Rome lose their lust
we look for the last younghoods to squeeze

>> No.13273377

>>13273240
Why would you need another when you have the collected poems already

>> No.13273406

>>13273377
The Cover is cooler.

>> No.13273415

Heinrich Heine
LXII from die Heimkehr in his Book of Songs. First poem I ever memorised.

>> No.13273502

>>13273186
>>13273246

patrician taste.

>> No.13273533

Sunday morning by Wallace Stevens

>> No.13273579

Walter Benjamin makes a pretty convincing case that Baudelaire was the greatest poet of the 19th century.

>> No.13273621

>>13272825
Me.

>> No.13274201

Tennyson
Locksley Hall from him. In general, maybe the Homeric epics or Paradise Lost
Sentimental value/nostalgia

>> No.13274226

>>13272825
Percy Shelley
The Sensitive Plant
It always spoke to me for some reason. I can't quite put my finger on why

>> No.13274406

>>13273579
Post it.

>> No.13274421

>>13274406
Not that anon, but there's a full book. "Paris, capital of the xix Century" (that is just my shit translation of the french edition title).

>> No.13274434

>>13273579
and?

>> No.13274925

>>13274421
>un livre de 21 pages
Bon, je vais le lire quand même, mais je m'attendais à plus volumineux...

http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/benjamin_walter/paris_capitale_19e_siecle/paris_capitale.html

>> No.13274936

Couldn't pick just one poem:
>Celan
Either 'Psalm', 'Hinausgekrönt', 'Anabasis' or 'Corona'..

>Saint-John Perse
'Seamarks' I,6 or 'Winds' III,6. Maybe the last Song of 'Anabasis' as well.

>Tagore
'Gitanjali' 7, 15, 75.

>> No.13274969

>>13274925

"Paris, capitale du xix siècle. Le livre des passages."
+1000 p

>> No.13275018

>>13273186
For me it’s “The Second Coming”

>> No.13275028

>>13275018
I like leda and the swan

>> No.13275034

>>13275028
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.

How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
Being so caught up,
So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?

>> No.13275214

Night-Song Of A Wandering Shepherd of Asia, Leopardi

>> No.13275269

>>13275034
hot

>> No.13275591

My favorite poet is me because I have a ok word bank.

>> No.13275765

Orides Fontela, she makes me FEEL things

>> No.13275967

>>13272825
Thomas Chatterton is the only decent poet. all others are hacks

>> No.13275968

>>13272825
Percy Shelley. He got into him through Ozymandias. My favourite would have to be The Masque of Anarchy. I wrote a paper on him during my A-Levels.

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>>13272825
Shakespeare.
>why
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His mixture of shit and grace, horror and beauty. Also, I love that there are obvious moments where you can see his writing quickly and without seriousness, but knows people won’t catch it. It’s like he doesn’t give a dam what you think, he knows it’s good and bad on purpose. He makes use of everything. There’s not a stone unturned in Shakespeare. He turned stones you didn’t even know were there, some weren’t even there until he put them there, just to turn them. All of this magic hidden and told swiftly, like here it is let’s go, on a stage to entertain the poor and rich alike. While they were trying to figore out what in the hell it was that just happened, another one. And another one. And another.
Shakespeare

>> No.13276068

>>13275968
what texts did you do for a-level?

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Blake has always been a favorite of mine since I first read him in grade school all those years ago. I really am very appreciative of him since his poetry was at the same time both simple enough to be accessible when I was younger yet profound enough for me to still enjoy and discover new things about it as I've grown older.

>> No.13276104

>>13276068
Tragedy we did The Great Gatsby, Richard II and Othello. Crime we did Atonement, Oliver Twist, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. For our course work we were to write a dissertation on a book of choice and a dissertation on a poet; I chose Crime and Punishment and Percy Shelley respectively.

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>>13272825
>be prodigy tier writer
>give up writing before you leave your teens
fuck you, you fucking faggot
you had an extreme gift and you pissed it away

>> No.13276128

>>13276113
Piss off a poets life is his greatest poem

>> No.13276149

>>13276128
a poet wouldn't be a poet if he didn't write

>> No.13276168

>>13276149
Are u saying tony hawk isn’t a poet?

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>>13276168
tony hawk is a grandpa

>> No.13276198

>>13276187
YOU SON OF A BATCH
DONT DO THAT TO MY HAWK

>> No.13276503

>>13272825
David Jones, Anathemata. I've loved a lot of Thomas Hardy's poems as well though.

>> No.13276553

Don't read nearly as much poetry as I should but there are a few that I always come back to:


Whitmann is a goat (probably the closest america will ever come to having its own dante),

then there's Dante who I shouldn't need to preface

gertrude stein- probably not for everyone but some of her stuff has stuck with me in a way that few have

Rimbaud as >>13272825 mentioned is fire, even if it does feel a bit ....overly erotic at times, its a necessary vibe, as is Baudelaire,

Still on the french vibe, there's Mallarmé who at times I like even more than Baudelaire (which feels a bit treasonous)

Louis Aragon is also nice if that kind of stuff is your cup of tea,

Don't have too firm of a grasp on german poets but Rilke has a special place in my heart for obvious (and somewhat pynchon related) reasons

Ezra Pound has a gravitas that few others this side of Dante can approximate, I like Eliot but sometimes find him hard to take seriously but these may be simple matters of bias or taste,

Wallace Stevens, I think he was somewhat adjacent to Pound and his blast magazine stuffs, some of the best 'intellectual' poetry if that's your cup of tea

William Carlos Williams I go back on forth with but I do think I for the most part enjoy his stuff

Yeats is of course excellent

Robert Frost is one of those guys I feel a lot of people hear about in HS and don't return to because they think it's babby's first poetry, but Frost is unironically one of the best American poets, and his accessibility comes is a result of a very agreeable charm that his style has

Similarly Poe also falls into the category above (there's a reason so many french fucks read him late into their life)

Neruda and Octavio Paz are both incredible

further back in time is a bit tricker for me, my english major gf turned me onto some of the classic romantics who I had heard of but never really dwelved into, so people like Keats, Byron, Shelly, etc.

>> No.13276581

the pound cantos that starts with
and came naptune
his mind leaping
like dolphins

etc

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>>13274201
People actually like Tennyson?

>> No.13278248

>>13278176
He is a metrical virtuoso. I'm surprised the meter autists here don't like him more.

>> No.13278255

>>13272825
Bob Dylan
Piano man