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Who is the greatest poet of all time?

My vote goes to this guy...

>> No.4610627

>>4610586
(sigh)

Vallejo

>> No.4610634

>>4610586

That depressed east coast intellect feel

>> No.4610638

Frost

>> No.4610645

Pessoa

>> No.4610702

Tupac

>> No.4610709

Pitbull

>> No.4610715

>>4610634

>being american

>> No.4610717

Waka

>> No.4610737

BasedGod

>> No.4610746

>greatest __ of all time

i don't play that game. i like gerard de nerval a lot, tho.

>> No.4610747

>not even one mention of a slam poet yet

LOL shit taste

>> No.4610749

Baudelaire.

>> No.4610754

Shakespeare. And there's simply no competition.

>> No.4610756

kanye

>> No.4610773

>>4610754

>And there's simply no competition.

>implying his work as a poet is anywhere near his work as a playwright

Homer, Blake and Dante are all better.
Cope with your situation.

>> No.4610800

blake

>> No.4610823

King David

>> No.4610835

>>4610586
Edgar Allan Pleb

>> No.4610890

>>4610835
autism

>> No.4610884

>>4610586
BUt that is not Alfred Lord Tennyson

>> No.4610897

Poe, it's not even debatable. His name is literally half of poetry.

>> No.4610910

>>4610897
his poetry is awful, especially compared to his stories. he must come off as a god in french to have inspired so many good poets, though.

>> No.4610915

>>4610910
>his poetry is awful

post yours

>> No.4611017

P. B. Shelley. ode to the west wind is mu fucking jam.

>> No.4611020

>>4610773
>not considering his plays works of poetry

>> No.4611033

On the subject of Poe: what are his best works? Story or otherwise.

>> No.4611049

>>4611033
the raven

>> No.4611052

>>4610915

topkek mate

>> No.4611119

eliot

>> No.4611146

I like TS Eliot, particularly the Hollow Men.

I have yet to read the waste land though.

>> No.4611158

baudelaire is that nigga

>> No.4611171

Frank Stanford might be my favorite unappreciated poet.

Just name dropping so he will be recongized

>> No.4611218
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4611218

Neruda

Without a doubt

>> No.4611220

kanye west

>> No.4611437

>>4610586
Yeats is the only poet who can mkae me cry

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4611489

Shel Silverstein

>> No.4611496

Byron, of course

>> No.4611535

all poetry is self indulgent gibberish

>> No.4611541

>>4611535

tip o' le fedora to you too

better get a good night's sleep, highschool starts early tomorrow

>> No.4611551

>>4611541

I am Harold Bloom

>> No.4611553

Poe, Milton and Eliot

>> No.4611557

>>4611551
>harold bloom
>disliking poetry
confirmed for not knowing shit about harold bloom and shallowly adopting le lit memes

>> No.4611567

>>4611557


The only thing I'm adopting is yer mum

>> No.4611674

>>4610586
Borges >

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4612074

>>4610749
This nigga knows what's up.

>> No.4612214

Its Rimbaud, obviously.

>> No.4612218

Fuck Rimbaud or Verlaine.
La Fontaine and Baudelaire are the best poets.

>> No.4612222

>poetry in translation

lol

yeats btw

>> No.4612229
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4612229

Camões is muh nigga

>> No.4612239

John Keats
John Milton
Pablo Neruda
Octavio Paz
Rupert Brooke

All are better imo. I revere John Milton in this list.

>> No.4612240

>>4610910
>muh bloom

>> No.4612277

>>4610586
I concur

>> No.4612280

>>4611033
Annabel Lee, The Cask of Amontillado, Hopfrog and The Imp of the Peverse

>> No.4612935

In English: Dylan Thomas
Alive, in English: Tie: Mark Strand and Phillip Dacey

>> No.4612958

W.H. Auden

>> No.4613967

>>4611146
Go for it man
What The Thunder Said is a fucking incredible conclusion.
The way the tension just builds and builds and the final stanza just decays into this white noise of poetic gibberish that simultaneously somehow considers some of the most fundamentally important concepts of existence... It gives me goosebumps just thinking about the first time I actually understood what and how Eliot was saying

Larkin, Wallace Stevens and Blake are probably my particular favourites, followed closely by Keats.

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4613978

That's easy.

>> No.4613999

Milton, Eliot, Dante

>> No.4614004

>>4610586
Charles Olson it's always Charles Olson i don't know why people bother saying otherwise.