>You're walking on the street >A man comes up to you and tells you to name 10 poets right then and there, with no help from an outside source Can you do it?

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Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:07:56 2011 No.2288755 [Reply] [Original]

>You're walking on the street
>A man comes up to you and tells you to name 10 poets right then and there, with no help from an outside source

Can you do it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:10:54 2011 No.2288760 Gorostiza, Owen, Villaurrutia, Popa, Auden, Kavafis, Rilke, Rimbaud, Eliot, Tao Lin. Easy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:10:54 2011 No.2288761 Robert Frost, Emily Dickenson, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Ted Koozer, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Browning, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Rilke, Wilde, Wallace Stevens, Plath, Ted Hughes, Dylan Thomas. I probably hit more than 10 before stopping.

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Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:12:55 2011 No.2288765

The order they came to me:

>Charles Bukowski
>E. E. Cummings
>Ezra Pound
>John Berryman
>John Milton
>John Keats
>Shakespeare
>Lord Byron
>Lord Tennyson
>Charles Baudelaire
>Edgar Allan Poe
>Percy Bysshe Shelley
>Robert Frost
>Walt Whitman
>Emily Dickinson
>Allen Ginsberg

That's all that I got off the top of my head. So yeah, I can do it.

Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:13:55 2011 No.2288766

>>2288755
I mean, i don't read poetry, but this seems pretty easy

Coleridge
Poe
Shakespeare
ted Hughes
the one who died, what's her name? fuck, pass
Longfellow
Dickenson
Whitman
Blake
the hippie dude, uh, Brautigan
ok, one more, I can do this
uh
Nin? she wrote poems, right?
Oh, Dante!

whew!

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:15:54 2011 No.2288770 If it was 25 it would be harder, but I could still do it. I think a very decent portion of the population could name 10 poets.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:19:56 2011 No.2288781 >>2288770 I really doubt so. Not the younger generations at least. And not Americans.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:21:55 2011 No.2288785 >>2288781 American teenager here. I can do it. So can some of my friends. But I agree that there is probably a higher percentage of young people who can't than adults.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:23:54 2011 No.2288787 Shakespeare Oscar Wilde Edgar Allen Poe William Carlos Williams Seamus Heaney Simon Armitage Emily Dickinson Carol Ann Duffy Byron Homer 10 poets that I learnt about in elementary/high school English class.

Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:23:54 2011 No.2288788

>>2288781

this is>>2288766, an american.

I could totally do it, but not stream-of-consciousness-top-of-my-head-style like I posted. It'd take me a minute, but I'm not thick just because of where I'm born. You sadly may be right about the young thing, but that's probably what they said about my generation.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:23:54 2011 No.2288789 I feel like any high school kid who gets Bs in English class could do it, I mean just parroting a list of famous names? Like if you're allowed to include Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein, and Tupac, definitely.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:25:54 2011 No.2288790 >Robert Frost >E.E. Cummings >Lord Byron >John Keats >Edgar Allen Poe >Percy Shelley >Shel Silverstein...heh >Emily Dickinson >T.S. Eliot >Wallace Stevens Plenty more where that came from.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:26:54 2011 No.2288791 William Topaz McGonagall William Topaz McGonagall William Topaz McGonagall William Topaz McGonagall William Topaz McGonagall William Topaz McGonagall William Topaz McGonagall William Topaz McGonagall William Topaz McGonagall William Topaz McGonagall

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:27:55 2011 No.2288795 Homer, Hesiod, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Flaccus, Archilochus, Sappho, Anacreon... Fuck. And Shakespeare.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:27:55 2011 No.2288796 >>2288791 Don't worry guys, he's just stuck in a loop. I'll fix him and get him back to you.

Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:27:55 2011 No.2288797

Yes. Does not necessarily reflect my tastes, just the first ten to come to mind. Strange mix I know.

>Shakespeare
>Byron
>Rabbie Burns
>Norman MacCaig
>Edwin Morgan
>Ezra Pound
>T.S. Eliot
>William Topaz McGonagall (this guy is funny, look him up)
>Carol Ann Duffy (awful)
>Carver

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:27:55 2011 No.2288798 Coleridge Gary Snyder Byron Cummings William Blake Robert Browning Ogden Nash Tolkien Emily Dickinson fuck I'm sure there's a lot more of those poets you read in high school which should be obvious.

Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:28:55 2011 No.2288799
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>>2288789
>mfw I didn't include ANY rappers in my list, and I totally think the ones I like qualify.

[fist shake]fucking honky cultural imperialism! you win this round! [/fist shake]

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:28:55 2011 No.2288800 >>2288788 Oh I'm not arguing that you are either. You've proven yourself. However, let's look at the general picture - The US education system is not at it's best. Surely you can agree on that?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:28:55 2011 No.2288802 >>2288795 No Simionides, No Catullus, no me gusta

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:29:54 2011 No.2288803 >>2288791 And I thought I was the only fan on /lit/! Greetings brother.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:29:54 2011 No.2288805 >>2288800 yeah, I know you're right. sigh. just had to indignantly rep for my people, I guess

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:32:54 2011 No.2288808 eichendorf kafka goethe heine herder heinrich von kleist lessing nietzsche schiller walther von der vogelweide all of which are german.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:32:54 2011 No.2288810 >>2288802 Ahhh, my brain is bad at this kind of thing.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:37:56 2011 No.2288816 >>2288808 Kafka's from Pargue you kraut.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:37:56 2011 No.2288817 >>2288808 ...Are you German?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:38:56 2011 No.2288819 >Can you do it? No. I don't really read poetry, and I usually can't think of names when prompted all of a sudden.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:39:57 2011 No.2288822 Cummings, Rimbaud, Hsu, Morse, Pound, Li Po, Baudelaire, Hugo, Baif, Joachim du Bellay You would have to have skipped English in highschool to not be able to name 10.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:39:57 2011 No.2288823 >>2288755 >>2288755 Definitely.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:39:57 2011 No.2288824 Plath Poe Jim Morrison Nope can't do it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:41:56 2011 No.2288825 Keats, the Shelly's(counts for two, right) Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Milton, Shakespeare, Yeats, Swift, Pope suck it

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:43:56 2011 No.2288828 Seriously just off the top of my head... John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Theodore Roethke, Robert Frost, Lord Byron, Wordsworth, EE Cummings, Pablo Neruda

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:46:56 2011 No.2288831 >>2288822 >Li Po Telletubbies don't count as poets.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:49:56 2011 No.2288833 Dickinson Frost Poe? Whitman Homer Lewis I'm a pleb.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:50:56 2011 No.2288835 >>2288831 Tinky Winky Dipsy La La Po Teletubbies, Teletubbies: Say He- llo. IH OH! If that's not a poem I don't know what is.

>>	Behemoth, Leftenant of the Grammar Nazi Party !!Twl3DmqEY/B Fri Dec 30 21:51:56 2011 No.2288838 Keats Pope Browning Hughes Rumi Yeats Lowell Bukowski Plath Dickinson Whitman Homer Milton

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:53:56 2011 No.2288840 Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Shakespeare, William Blake, Homer, Dante, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, Tomas Tranströmer, Nietzsche, T.S.Eliot...

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:54:56 2011 No.2288842 Homer Dante Virgil Edgar Allan Poe Percy B Shelley Shakespeare Robert Frost Maya Angelou Langston Hughes John Milton

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:55:56 2011 No.2288843 >>2288824 The worst thing is not that you can't name 5 poets, but that you actually think Jim "talentless hack famous because he was in some primitive guitar noise group and died young" Morrison was anything close to resembling a poet.

Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:55:56 2011 No.2288844

>>2288817

well, yes. I admit that I'd have trouble answering whenWasked to name 10 non-german poets.
But then again, I find translation of poetry to be terribly alienating, at times even highly distorting. And my multilingual competence is hardly sufficient enough for being able to fully appreciate foreign-language poetry.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:56:56 2011 No.2288846 >Shakespeare >Bob Dylan >Paul Garfunkel >Art Simon Nah, I'm done.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:58:56 2011 No.2288849 >>2288844 Oh no no, it's fine. I didn't mean to imply anything else. I'm quite amazed actually. I just thought that it'd be out-of-this-world if you weren't German and could have been able to name 10 German poets just like that. But still, amazing.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 21:59:57 2011 No.2288853 Charlie Sheen Viggo Mortenson Jewel Suzanne Summers Leonard Nimoy Richard Grieco Amber Tamblyn Daniel Radcliffe Russel Crowe ...Lisa Simpson

>>	Muutant Fri Dec 30 22:03:56 2011 No.2288865 Shakespeare Frost Cummings Whitman Yeats Byron Milton Wordsworth Kipling Heaney I believe that's 10

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 22:04:57 2011 No.2288873 >>2288865 You "believe" that's ten? Too busy reading to learn arithmetic?

>>	Muutant Fri Dec 30 22:06:57 2011 No.2288877 >>2288873 I wasn't keeping count as I typed each name down...

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 22:15:56 2011 No.2288898 File: 109 KB, 505x512, 1325270481169.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2288824 >>2288824

Anonymous Fri Dec 30 22:15:56 2011 No.2288899

>>2288843
he may not have been a great poet, but he was passable i.e. there are a zillion english undergrads, teenaged girls, and even published poets that also fancy themselves "poets" that are worse than him. but ok, he was not a poet of note. he was, however, a rock-n-roller of the highest caliber, so lets lay off the "talentless hack" hate. He could also shoot film back when you had to know about f stops and ISO and tungsten vs natural light etc. so, again, talentless is a bit of a stretch, mr. anonymous-poster-who-even-if-he-posted-his-name-nobody-would-recognize-it.

'Sides, I kinda dig the cemetery poem and Texas Radio (the live one, though)

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 22:18:56 2011 No.2288901 >>2288844 >And my multilingual competence is hardly sufficient enough for being able to fully appreciate foreign-language poetry. sounds like your command of English is not lacking anything, to be honest.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 22:25:57 2011 No.2288911 Do we have to say the first name of the poet too? Because goddamnit, the last name is all I can muster.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 22:30:56 2011 No.2288919 Oscar Wilde Virgil Homer Dante Alighieri John Milton Emily Dickinson H P Lovecraft Poe Robert Frost Dr. Seuss / Shell Silverstein

>>	Mad Scientist Hououin Kyouma !!RBaVX6t0twu Fri Dec 30 22:30:56 2011 No.2288920 Depends, is it JUST poets or people who have written a couple novels on the side count? I think i'd be able to do it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 22:32:56 2011 No.2288925 No i cannot. Sorry to let you down, society.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 22:36:56 2011 No.2288930 TS Elliot Roberto Bolaño Charles Bukowski (oh boy) Jorge Luis Borges Jane Austen Vasko Popa Arthur Rimbaud Charles Baudelaire Isidore Ducasse Mark Strand Tomas Transtromer First name that popped out.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 22:42:56 2011 No.2288940 File: 67 KB, 411x500, Tomas-the-Transformer-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2288930 >Tomas Transtromer you're telling me he writes poetry, too?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 22:44:56 2011 No.2288944 >>2288940 honestly that's exactly what I think of everytime I see this guy's name. Hopefully next year Voltron will win the Booker or something

>>	noko Anonymous Fri Dec 30 22:55:56 2011 No.2288962 yup 1 edgar allen poe 2 pablo neruda 3.ts elliot 4 dickenson 5 robert frost 6 stephen crane 7 bukowski 8 Catullus 9 byron 10 wordsworth

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 22:55:56 2011 No.2288964 T.S Eliot W.H Auden W.B Yeats Sylvia Plath Jenny Bornholdt Hone Tuwhare James K. Baxter Alexander Pope John Dunne Seamus Heany Piece of piss

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 22:59:57 2011 No.2288975 >>2288755 Er... yes. You know this is /lit/ yeah? Can YOU name 10 sculptures without an outside source? That's at least slightly challenging for me.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:00:57 2011 No.2288978 >>2288975 ant to say SCULPTORS. Not sculptures.

Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:01:57 2011 No.2288979

>>2288944
lulz. ok, pact: we name our first-borns "Voltron"--whether boy or girl--heavily coach them in language arts, and hope for the best. meet back here in, say, 20 years?

the funny thing is i didn't know if there really was a Thomas transformer to go along with my mental image, but I just had to google it and hit "image" because the joke was too good to pass up. well, "good" is probably relative....

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:05:57 2011 No.2288984 Poe Neruda Ginsberg Plath Stevie Smith Bukowski Whitman Basho Les Murray Seuss

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:06:57 2011 No.2288989 >>2288975 rodin michaelangelo fucuk

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:07:58 2011 No.2288992 I neither read nor enjoy poetry and therefore don't pay it's writers much attention. having said that I can't really name ten of them

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:07:58 2011 No.2288994 Frenchfag here Rimbaud Baudelaire Nerval Hugo Musset Verlaine Apollinaire Ronsard Du Bellay Villon

>>	But I don't even... Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Fri Dec 30 23:08:58 2011 No.2288995 File: 180 KB, 500x375, Poets lies.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Sappho Homer Shakespeare Poe Dickenson Baudelaire Whitman Dylan Thomas ee Cummings ... Brendan Perry

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:08:58 2011 No.2288996 RZA GZA ODB Raekwon the Chef U-God Inspectah Deck Ghostface Killah Method Man Masta Killa Cappadonna

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:08:58 2011 No.2288997 >>2288989 I'll raise you: Anthony Gormley Da Vinci Hirst Giacomatti Henry Moore Anish Kapoor Picasso Then fuck.

Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:09:57 2011 No.2288999

>>2288978
bet.

Rodin
Michaelangelo
Da Vinci
Leonardo (who I saw an exhibit of a few years back--OMG head asplode)
Calder
uhhhhh... ok Damien Hirst
the guy who outsources everything, the douche? fuck, pass
Mare
DuChamp, if you count ready-mades (I do)
Dali (yes, painter, but pretty well-known sculptor, too)
fuck, a million scuptures are flooding my mind but not the artists.
OK, as a cop-out I'll say Brunelleshi which I'm spelling wrong and I'm only familliar with his architecture but he was a renaissance guy and probably sculpted, too. Or Donatello--same deal

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:10:57 2011 No.2289001 does that guy who wraps like mountains or whatever in plastic count as a sculptor? it seems kinda sculpturesque

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:11:57 2011 No.2289002 Yeats Shakespeare Homer Milton Ben Johnson Wyatt Surrey Donne Herbert Spenser

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:11:57 2011 No.2289003 >>2289001 well, yeah, if you knew his NAME we'll allow it. its Christo, btw

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Fri Dec 30 23:14:58 2011 No.2289009 File: 25 KB, 575x517, gold_rowanlevs.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2289001 Christo Sort of 3D art like sculpture, but its a whole other media. We'd have to allow Andy Goldsworthy too.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:15:58 2011 No.2289013 >>2289003 you know i was totally thinking that but then in my head it sounded more like a parody of an artist name than an artist name

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:17:57 2011 No.2289021 File: 112 KB, 375x500, buchanan-marsielle.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2289009 And Neil Buchanan

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:18:57 2011 No.2289024 >Edna St. Vincent Millay >Hilda Doolittle >Emily Dickinson >Anne Sexton >Sappho >Sylvia Plath >Gertrude Stein >Dorothy Parker >Yeats >Keats I tried to make that one all women but blanked out.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:20:58 2011 No.2289031 File: 26 KB, 360x372, ron burg finger mouth.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2289024 still, I'm impressed

Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:20:58 2011 No.2289032

Keats, Grey, Shelley, Auden, Larkin, Chaucer, Milton, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Byron

Ginsberg, Whitman, Jeffers, Eliot, Pound, Ferlinghetti, Stevens, Dickinson, Frost, cummings

Neruda, Dante, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Rilke, Montale, Valery, Goethe, Schiller, Celan

bitch

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Fri Dec 30 23:20:58 2011 No.2289033 File: 34 KB, 338x450, Andy face.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2289021 And Andy Kaufman! Hide and Seek Champion of the world. Still hiding after all these years.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:21:58 2011 No.2289038 >>2289013 >>2289013 no love for louise bougusie?

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Fri Dec 30 23:22:58 2011 No.2289040 File: 37 KB, 368x400, edna-st-vincent-millay.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2289024 I thought it was an all lesbian list at first. And how could I have forgotten Edna? Well, I've yet to read any of them anyway

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:22:58 2011 No.2289042 >>2289033 yeah, nobody's found me yet; but thanks to the internet, I can safely post here without losing my title

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 23:23:57 2011 No.2289045 >>2288996 best post ITT

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 03:19:03 2011 No.2289088 Whitman, Pound, Frost, Shakespeare, Gysin, Wilde, Poe, Ginsberg, ...

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 03:27:02 2011 No.2289094 Kasper Salonen James Midgely Sarah Stanton Don Paterson Rupert Loydell John Burnside Jacob Polley Alex Fear Jorie Graham Wendy Cope

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 03:33:02 2011 No.2289098 >memorising the names of authors This is where you're going wrong with literature.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 03:35:02 2011 No.2289101 >poetry

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 03:49:03 2011 No.2289110 These are all published and well known poets. Why can't you call yourself a poet? Or is it some mystical title bestowed upon you by others?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 03:54:02 2011 No.2289112 >>2289110 It is generally expected that poets write poetry from time to time.

Anonymous Sat Dec 31 03:55:02 2011 No.2289114

>>2289110
I don't tell people I'm a mechanic if I try to fix my own car, do I? Why not? Is 'mechanic' some mystical title bestowed upon you by others? Or does it just denote a recognized and practiced proficiency in a certain trade that it would be misleading to ascribe to oneself if indeed no one else would ascribe it to one?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 03:57:03 2011 No.2289115 >>2289098 >implying anyone itt has made any effort to 'memorize' these names That's like saying I memorized the names of all the Presidents who've been in office during my lifetime. I didn't; I just know.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 03:58:03 2011 No.2289116 >>2289114 Mechanic is a job title.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 03:59:02 2011 No.2289117 eliot auden betjeman al purdy bp nichol margaret atwood shelley byron keats shakespeare chaucer frost poe ok i think that's enuff

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 04:00:02 2011 No.2289118 >>2289117 >only surnames C'mon son, try harder.

Anonymous Sat Dec 31 04:07:02 2011 No.2289122

>>2289116
I don't tell people I'm a health food guru if I try to watch what I eat, do I? Why not? Is 'health food guru' some mystical title bestowed upon you by others? Or does it just denote a recognized and practiced proficiency in a certain area that it would be misleading to ascribe to oneself if indeed no one else would ascribe it to one?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 04:07:02 2011 No.2289123 >>2289122 Health food guru is another job title. What the hell are you doing?

Anonymous Sat Dec 31 04:19:02 2011 No.2289126

>>2289123
I don't tell people I collect rocks if I pick them up sometimes, do I? Why not? Is 'rock collector' some mystical title bestowed upon you by others? Or does it just denote a recognized and practiced proficiency in a certain area that it would be misleading to ascribe to oneself if indeed no one else would ascribe it to one?

Anonymous Sat Dec 31 04:22:02 2011 No.2289129

>>2289126
If you're actually collecting them I don't see why you wouldn't say you collect rocks.

If you just pick them up, then why not say "I pick up rocks"?

If you like writing poems from time to time, then hey, you're a poet.

I've had a poem published in a book before, but I wouldn't say I'm a poet. Poetry is the weakest form of literature and expression.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 04:24:02 2011 No.2289130 >>2289129 Calling oneself a poet denotes a recognized and practiced proficiency in a certain area that it would be misleading to ascribe to oneself if indeed no one else would ascribe it to one.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 04:26:02 2011 No.2289131 >>2289130 >don't call yourself a poet unless someone else does Is it hard for you not to sound like a pretentious cunt?

Anonymous Sat Dec 31 04:29:03 2011 No.2289135

>>2289131
You could call yourself a faggot because it just denotes a recognized and practiced proficiency in a certain area (read: resorting to name-calling in the face of sound arguments you cannot refute in a civil and intelligent manner) that everyone else would ascribe to you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 04:33:02 2011 No.2289137 Ten non-white poets and haijin. Terrance Hayes Maya Angelou Derek Walcott Benjamin Zephaniah Kobayashi Issa Matsuo Basho Yosa Buson Laurence Stacy Lenard D. Moore Jupiter Hammon

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 04:34:02 2011 No.2289138 >>2289135 >sound argument >summarising your verbose outbursts >gets upset over this If you write poems, you're a poet.

Anonymous Sat Dec 31 04:48:02 2011 No.2289143

>>2289138
If you write poems you're a poet.
If you fix cars you're a mechanic.
If you collect rocks you're a rock collector.

If you write "poems" you're not a poet.
If you "fix" cars you're not a mechanic.
If you "collect" rocks you're not a rock collector.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 04:51:03 2011 No.2289145 >>2289143 First bit is correct. Not sure what you're trying to imply in the second, but it's wrong and contradicts the first part.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 05:05:02 2011 No.2289152 Pushkin Lermontov Zhukovsky Mayakovsky Derzhavin Nekrasov Tutchev Fet Balmont Mandelstam

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 05:07:02 2011 No.2289153 >>2289145 I am implying that if these things are not done properly they may as well not've been done at all, negating the claim to the title.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 05:14:02 2011 No.2289161 >>2289153 Poems are subjective, there's no right or wrong to do them.

Anonymous Sat Dec 31 05:20:02 2011 No.2289165

This is probably the easiest thing along these lines that someone could ask me. First ten that'd come to mind though would be basic:

Wordsworth, Dickinson, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Blake, Browning, Whitman, Stevens.

I wrote more then edited out everything past ten. Guess what area of lit I work in.

Anonymous Sat Dec 31 05:28:02 2011 No.2289172

>>2289161
So this 'poem':

I get high,
so high i feel like i can touch the sky.
Then i come crashing down,
and i put on a frown.

I fuck girls,
rock their world.
Then the rush and adrenaline are replaced by pain.
and shame...

I feel pain from the blade,
from the hate people show me.
This isnt goodbye, atleast not yet.
Im writing out the pain, instead of with the blade.

Is just as good as, say, When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be by Keats? All poems have the exact same objective value, being none? A poetry scholar's thoughts on the two pieces is just as valid as a 12 year old girl's? You are confusing the enjoyment of a poem with the amount of skill with which the poem is crafted. You are parroting unthinkingly an opinion that comes very quickly and simply to many people. Because everyone enjoys different poems surely the quality of those poems must be subjective! Poems don't exist outside our enjoyment of them! They've nothing to do with skill! Anyone can write just as well as Keats!

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 05:32:02 2011 No.2289175 >>2289172 This is my favorite poem (by which I mean the best ever written): These are _~_LINE BREAKS_~_ -by me (<-- part of the poem [<--not part of the poem])

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 05:42:02 2011 No.2289179 keats pound whitman beckett baudelaire elliot lorca salinas panero rilke

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 05:48:02 2011 No.2289181 Anybody who listens to rap could.

Anonymous Sat Dec 31 05:49:02 2011 No.2289182

>>2289175
Exactly. That is the problem. It's not that poetry is subjective any more than anything else. It's that people think their tastes are objective. If I like a particular pillow over another, does that mean that the quality of all pillows is subjective? Of course fucking not! There are objective parameters by which one can measure the quality of a pillow! One of which is comfort and appeal (enjoyability in the poem's case), but there are many of things to consider! The material, the stitching, the stuffing, the size, the color or design, etc.! The parallels to these things being poetic devices and all that sort.

You sods!

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 05:55:02 2011 No.2289187 >>2289172 Actually I think that poems better than anything Keats ever did because it actually has relevance to the real world and isn't sissy shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 16:42:19 2011 No.2289888 Pablo Neruda, John donne, emily dickinson, oscar wilde, william wordsworth, Sylvia platt, Jose Luis borges, Lord byron, miguel de unamuno and ezra pound. Move along, son.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 16:44:18 2011 No.2289893 Plath Hughes Whitman Keats Raleigh Shakespeare Wordsworth Shelly Raworth Browning

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 16:47:19 2011 No.2289899 That's easy. You should make them list ten from a particular age/movement instead.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 16:48:19 2011 No.2289901 File: 5 KB, 272x185, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] what nerve do you even have to ask

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 16:50:18 2011 No.2289904 >>2289888 Plath*

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 16:51:18 2011 No.2289905 >>2289888 dat capitalization hehehehehehehehe

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 16:51:19 2011 No.2289907 File: 11 KB, 252x241, 1325367690816.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2289904 >Plath

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 16:55:18 2011 No.2289916 Saul Williams Sage Francis Talib Kweli Mos Def Buddy Wakefield Kanye West Black Ice Common Nas Eyedea deal with it nerds

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 17:18:18 2011 No.2289962 >>2289129 >Poetry is the weakest form of literature and expression. I hope you don't have literary ambitions, son.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 17:25:18 2011 No.2289971 >>2289962 Even if he does, they'll come to nil.

>>	faded !!Sz9aYFda0pg Sat Dec 31 17:26:19 2011 No.2289972 Plath, Keats, Yeats, W. Blake, Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, EE Cummings, R. Frost, Dickinson, Poe

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 17:28:18 2011 No.2289975 Fuzuli, Baki, Mehmed Akif, Necip Fazıl, Nazım Hikmet, Nedim, Ahmed Haşim, Yeats. and I don't read poetry.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 17:29:18 2011 No.2289979 Shakespeare Keats Yeats Wilde Blake Wordsworth Lil Wayne Plath Chaucer Ginsburg

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 17:29:18 2011 No.2289980 source of OP's image?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 17:30:18 2011 No.2289984 >>2289980 tineye.com Learn how to help yourself.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 17:32:26 2011 No.2289987 Robert Frost TS Eliot William Shakespeare Lord Byron Emily Bronte Charlotte Bronte Pablo Neruda Walt Whitman Homer Yeats protip: name virtually any classical author and they've written something that could be called "poetry" at some point

Truman Capote !!cO9KVBDtkqQ Sat Dec 31 17:37:25 2011 No.2289994
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>William Butler Yeats
>Arthur Rimbaud
>Percy Shelley
>William Shakespeare
>Wystan Hugh Auden
>Ezra Pound
>Osip Mandelstam
>Jackie Chan
>Edward Estlin Cummings
>Pablo Neruda

too easy, OP.

Anonymous Sat Dec 31 17:51:24 2011 No.2290019

Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Gray, Ezra Pound, WH Auden, Alexander Pope, John Dryden.

That's what came right off the top of my head. Slightly embarrassed by the Romantic-heavy start I made.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 17:52:24 2011 No.2290022 >>2289994 >Jackie Chan I think I love you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 17:54:24 2011 No.2290024 >>2290022 >>2289994 I too adore him for that, provided he's actually seen the sketch and not just a series of threads on /b/.

>>	listserv !!Wqo2DQRkhKC Sat Dec 31 18:24:25 2011 No.2290060 Easy (not sure why this merits a thread): John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley Ezra Pound Paul Laurence Dunbar Langston Hughes Robert Frost John Keats William Blake Rumi William Carlos Williams

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 18:47:26 2011 No.2290097 William Shakespeare XJ Kennedy Tom O'Grady Seamus Heaney Dabney Stuart Grace Simpson Claudia Emerson Dick Allen William Virgil Davis Ira Sadoff

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 18:51:25 2011 No.2290108 >>2288755 W.H. Auden, David Schubert, Wallace Stevens, Heinrich Heine, Rupert Brooke, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Charles Baudelaire, Shakespeare

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