beginners poetry

[Anonymous No.16872409]

how do I get into poetry?

[Anonymous No.16872511]

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[Anonymous No.16872517]

>>16872511
can't I start with something german or english instead? surely reading poetry in it's original language is better

[Anonymous No.16872546]

>>16872409
>>16872517
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake are a great place to start imo.

[Anonymous No.16872551]

>>16872517
>Learn Greek
>Start with them

NGMI

[Anonymous No.16872600]

>>16872409
Just go for something that interests you. The first poetry I ever read on my own was fuckin the complete poems of W.B Yeats, which probably isn't the best place to start, but I enjoyed it enough to properly get into poetry. Maybe just get a fat anthology if you can't decide on one person straight away and just read more of whoever you like most from there.

[Anonymous No.16872625]

>>16872409
Unironically start with Shel Silverstein.

[Anonymous No.16872635]

>>16872600
+1 for anthologies, this is a good one that's not too expensive

[Anonymous No.16872654]

>>16872409
Start by googling poetry

[Anonymous No.16872799]

>>16872409
Read these:

Sidney - 'Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show'
Shakespeare - 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day'
Donne - A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Milton - On his Blindness
Pope - First Epistle from the Essay on Man
Gray - Elegy in a Country Churchyard
Blake - Auguries of Innocence
Wordsworth - Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
Coleridge - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Byron - Darkness
Shelley - Ozymandias
Keats - Ode to a Nightingale
Poe - The Raven
Tennyson - Ulysses
Browning - Fra Lippo Lippi
D.G. Rossetti - Jenny
Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - How Do I Love Thee?
Whitman - Out of the cradle endlessly rocking
Dickinson - I felt a funeral in my brain
Yeats - The Second Coming
T. S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Stevens - Sunday Morning