/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1912595]

simple question, who is your favorite poet and why?

okay maybe not that simple. but i'd like some suggestions to read

pic-related because we share the same name o.o

[Anonymous No.1912602]

[Sherlock Holmes Guy No.1912609]

Are you trying to get into reading poetry, or are you just looking for new names?

[Anonymous No.1912619]

both ...

[Sherlock Holmes Guy No.1912659]

Well, my list of favorites is pretty basic and will probably be unhelpful if you know anything about poetry. E. E. Cummings and Wilfred Owen used to be favorites of mine, they're the two poets who I would say got me interested in poetry.

[Anonymous No.1912674]

appreciate it

[Anonymous No.1912686]

>o.o
>implying you're not a faggot

Also, I like Arthur Rimbaud.

[Anonymous No.1912687]

Tupac.

[Anonymous No.1912703]

OP is a nigger

I like Poe a lot, and I have since childhood. I also enjoy the Tao Te Ching and buddhist poetry.

Lo! 'tis a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years!
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre, to see
A play of hopes and fears,
While the orchestra breathes fitfully
The music of the spheres.

Mimes, in the form of God on high,
Mutter and mumble low,
And hither and thither fly-
Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping from out their Condor wings
Invisible Woe!

That motley drama- oh, be sure
It shall not be forgot!
With its Phantom chased for evermore,
By a crowd that seize it not,
Through a circle that ever returneth in
To the self-same spot,
And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
And Horror the soul of the plot.

But see, amid the mimic rout
A crawling shape intrude!
A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic solitude!
It writhes!- it writhes!- with mortal pangs
The mimes become its food,
And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.

Out- out are the lights- out all!
And, over each quivering form,
The curtain, a funeral pall,
Comes down with the rush of a storm,
While the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, "Man,"
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

[Anonymous No.1912717]

>>1912703
Buddhist poetry? I didn't know this existed, give me some Buddhist poets.

[Anonymous No.1912750]

>>1912703
This is the only poem by Poe that I have ever been able to stand.

[Anonymous No.1912802]

Either Percy Shelley or T. S. Eliot

Percy Shelley is the most lyrically masterful writer I know (in English), and his way of looking at life (as in Prometheus Unbound) and illustrating love (in "Love's Philosophy") strikes my heartstrings like a harpist.

T. S. Eliot's blank verse just mesmerizes me, and I'm always amazed by how beautiful it all seems even though I can't pin down a kind of meter or rhyme scheme.

[Anonymous No.1912815]

>>1912687
Word.

[Anonymous No.1912818]

It's not simple at all. At the moment my favourite poet is John Berryman - I have a copy of his Dream Songs which I've been looking at at least once a day for ages. I think Neruda is a better poet, and he's so prolific that I'll probably be reading his stuff for the rest of my life.

If I feel like reading something a little more 'classic' then I love Wordsworth, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Dylan Thomas has a kind of classic, bardic, timeless feel as well.

If I feel intellectual, I like Eliot, and if I feel like comfort food, I love Seamus Heaney, the poetic equivalent of mashed potatoes.

My favourite poet's probably Yeats, in as much as I think he may have been the best. Then again, I read Shakespeare's sonnets sometimes and just think 'fuck'.

So, I dunno, OP. I think favourite poet is like favourite song - it all depends on the mood you're in.

[anon No.1912819]

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.


charles bukowski

[Anonymous No.1912865]

>Learn french
>Read Baudelaire and Rimbaud
>shit yourself
>???
>Profit

[Anonymous No.1912871]

>>1912865

>not mentioning Lautréamont

[Anonymous No.1912880]

William Blake, because he has no equal.

[Anonymous No.1912893]

>>1912871
Not mentioning Flaubert and Musset

[Anonymous No.1912901]

blake, hopkins and dickinson.

[Anonymous No.1912903]

>>1912901
>>1912901

but my favorite poem is rime of the ancient mariner by colbridge.

[Dr. Seussicide (AKA SLAF) No.1912908]

Federico García Lorca (Poet in New York era) in original Spanish.

[Anonymous No.1912925]

anyone know how well pessoa's english poetry stands up to the book of disquiet? bod is obvs fucking amazing but i'm not sure if the poetry will be worth it at all

[Anonymous No.1912931]

Pic very related.
I'm not sure why but Plath is one of my favorites. She was an incredibly versatile writer.

[Anonymous No.1912968]

Ctrl+f
'homer'
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[Rangaha !KJKZ7n2h3I No.1912970]

Yeats, because of the pure emotion in his works.

[Anonymous No.1913042]

elizabeth bishop and rudyard kipling

[Anonymous No.1913050]

Notorious B.I.G, 2pac, Rakim, KRS-one
You can all hate but if you say there is no poetry in rap than you give yourself narrow constraints.
inb4 someone says, most rap today is utter shit, tru dat

[Anonymous No.1913053]

>>1913050
rap is way better today than it was 20 years ago, you're stupid
enjoy your cave-rap

[Anonymous No.1913062]

where's the poetry in "move bitch get out my way?"

[Dr. Seussicide (AKA SLAF) No.1913081]

>>1913050
> inb4 someone says, most rap today is utter shit, tru dat
I'd expect that from a 2pac fan.
Hip hop is in it's element today if you look past MTV. And no, Tyler, The Creator doesn't count.

[Anonymous No.1913126]