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Do you guys have a favourite poet?

Are any of your favourite poems from your favourite poets?

Why do you like your poet or poems? Any particular reasons?

Pic related, growing up as a city boy, I don't get to experience nature all too much. Descriptions just rolls off this guy's pen.

>> No.1615786

/lit/ doesn't read poems.

>> No.1615800

>>1615786

No, they just write terrible ones and post them.


(emphasis on the terrible
lol open parenthesis- u mad?

>> No.1615809

Eliot
Wasteland
imagery/ intangible shit

>> No.1615818

>>1615800
Fucking OCD rage.

>> No.1615861

>>1615818
In that case don't ever read Charles Olson. you will murder someone.

>>1615809
Not to be all nazi about it, but it's The Waste Land. Misrepresenting the title is a pet peeve of mine. Anyway, I also think it's awesome.

My favourite poet at the moment is Frank O'Hara, and In Memory of My Feelings is my favourite poem by him. O'Hara does a great job deconstructing the self. I love that shit.

>> No.1615867
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1615867

dat Walt Whitman guy

>> No.1615872
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1615872

This man right here

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>> No.1615876

>>1615872
You are an unbelievable bro. Favourite poem?

>> No.1615878

>>1615876
Not worst, there is none. Probably. The terrible sonnets are all brilliant. You?

>> No.1615879

>>1615878
It's all about dat Windhover mang, maybe I Wake And Feel The Fell of Dark. Definitely agree on the terrible sonnets though, powerful stuff.

>> No.1615884
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1615884

Harvey Goldner

>> No.1615892

I like most Modernist Brits, what with the whole fragmentation of the soul & trying to piece together something that makes sense of the despair & shit.

Plus I think it's sad that Sassoon shat himself to death. I feel for him. (At least I think he did, or maybe I get his death mixed up with another English poet with diarrhea.)

>> No.1615895

Paglo Neruda and Haruki Murakami

>> No.1615898

>>1615895
Pablo*

>> No.1615899

wordsworth, byron, coleridge,keats,hardy, ben jonson, alexander pope, john milton, poe, lowell, yeats, frost, browning, whitman, p.b. shelley,william blake, emily dickinson, thomas grey,muir, eliot, pound,w.h.auden

>> No.1615900

>>1615899

Everything you're supposed to like? That's boring. Why do you like them?

>> No.1615911

>>1615861
Yeah thanks
Wait, I guess you weren't really being rude so I won't be either.
It was a conscious misrepresentation. Everyone knows the poem to which I'm referring so I just typed it out in a more simple manner.

>> No.1615963

>>1615899
meh

>> No.1615970

poems are gay

>> No.1615973

>>1615970
homosexuals are gay

>> No.1615985

david berman mabes

emily dickinson and walt whitman blow ass

>> No.1615988

Kipling.
I like what I like. Hater's aint gonna break my stride.

>> No.1615997

>>1615719
I've been wanting to get into poetry and I just looked at some Robert Frost, thanks OP, I really like his stuff. The one I liked most was Canis Major. Do you have any recommendations for collections of his work I should get?

>> No.1617309

T.S. Eliot is the rape, man. Absolutely the rape.

Had to write a 10-page response to just a 2-page section of The Waste Land.

He has like, what, 30 footnotes per page he writes?

>> No.1617327

Ted Hughes. Crow changed my perception of reality and it still hasn't gone back to normal.

Everyone praises his Lovesong whenever it's posted:

He loved her and she loved him.
His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to
He had no other appetite
She bit him she gnawed him she sucked
She wanted him complete inside her
Safe and sure forever and ever
Their little cries fluttered into the curtains
Her eyes wanted nothing to get away
Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows
He gripped her hard so that life
Should not drag her from that moment
He wanted all future to cease
He wanted to topple with his arms round her
Off that moment's brink and into nothing
Or everlasting or whatever there was
Her embrace was an immense press
To print him into her bones
His smiles were the garrets of a fairy palace
Where the real world would never come
Her smiles were spider bites
So he would lie still till she felt hungry
His words were occupying armies
Her laughs were an assassin's attempts
His looks were bullets daggers of revenge
His glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets
His whispers were whips and jackboots
Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing
His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway
Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks
And their deep cries crawled over the floors
Like an animal dragging a great trap
His promises were the surgeon's gag
Her promises took the top off his skull
She would get a brooch made of it
His vows pulled out all her sinews
He showed her how to make a love-knot
Her vows put his eyes in formalin
At the back of her secret drawer
Their screams stuck in the wall
Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves
Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop
In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs
In their dreams their brains took each other hostage
In the morning they wore each other's face

>> No.1617347

>>1617327
Haters gonna hate,
lovers gonna love

>> No.1618282
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1618282

Neruda is disappointed he only got one mention in this thread.

>> No.1618292

>>1618282
I love Neruda.
I also love Fernando de Pessoa. Augusto dos Anjos. Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Olavo de Billac.
Those are real genious of the portuguese language.

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1618297

>ctl+f

>no Rilke

sigh, when will I find my soulmate

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>>1618282
this this this

>> No.1618309

larkin is my favorite poet, he writes really good and uses enjambment well, also he's a snarky asshole, welp okay bye laters

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>>1618297
Yes!

>> No.1618327

At the moment:

>William Blake - London

>Samuel T. Coleridge - Kubla Khan

>Percy Bysshe Shelley - Adonais

>John Keats - Ode on Melacholy

I love the Romantics. I need to read more Byron; he was a showman, a public figure who indulged in pleasure. He openly disparaged Wordsworth and John Keats.

Anybody have an suggestions for me?

>> No.1618330

>>1618310

!!!

Have you read the duino elegies?

>> No.1618331

>>1618327
Byron was the Lady Gaga of his day.

>> No.1618341

>>1618331

He was hedonistic and lived lavishly until he became a wondering outcast.

>> No.1618365

>>1618341
What did he wonder about?

>> No.1618380

>>1618365

What it was like before he screwed up his life. Although, I am sure you are aware I meant 'wandering'.

Forgive me for the slip; I am awfully tired.

>> No.1618391

>>1618331
If Lady Gaga had a pet bear, fucked her siblings, and went to fight and die in the revolutions in the Middle East.

So pretty much Lord Byron was nothing like Lady Gaga.

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1618448

>mfw I walked into a Barnes and Noble today and I realized they completely scrapped the poetry section to make way for a giant Nook display

>> No.1618452

>>1618448
Brofist. What the fuck were they thinking?

>> No.1618471

>>1618452

I was a little peeved but I totally understand. The masses don't care, I'd wager 90%+ of my peers in class don't care, and sadly the majority of /lit/ doesn't seem to care.

>> No.1618528

>>1618471

I care. Sad times we live in.

>> No.1618544

Hilda Doolittle's later work is probably the most enjoyable poetry has ever been for me. I wouldn't call her my favorite poet overall, though.

>> No.1619149

>>1618544
And who would you call?

>> No.1619160

Would you mind telling me who it is in your pic OP? I don't tend to recognise writers by face. Plus, your file name isn't much help...

>> No.1619177

W.B. Yeats

>> No.1619181

>>1619177
Truman we have incredibly similar tastes. How long have you lived here?

>> No.1619186

>>1619160
It's Robert Frost. I looked him up yesterday and was amazed.

>> No.1619189 [DELETED] 

>>1619160
Me again. My favourite poet is either WB Yeats or TS Eliot. It's a very difficult tie. I've read and enjoyed more Yeats but enjoyed what I've read of Eliot more intensely. Yeats wins in terms of beauty, Eliot in terms of observation.

Now someone please answer my fucking question.

>> No.1619194

>>1619160
Me again. My favourite poet is either WB Yeats or TS Eliot. It's a very difficult tie. I've read and enjoyed more Yeats but enjoyed what I've read of Eliot more intensely. Yeats wins in terms of beauty, Eliot in terms of observation.
>>1619186
Thanks for answering. I'll have to check him out.

>> No.1619197

>>1619181

10 years.

I think we just have similar personalities.

>> No.1619198

>>1619197
don't be so harsh on yourself Truman.