Good Poet?
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Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 141
From: Cedarville, New Jersey
another favorite of mine by frost:
Stars
How countlessly they congregate
O'er our tumultuous snow,
Which flows in shapes as tall as trees
When wintry winds do blow!--
As if with keeness for our fate,
Our faltering few steps on
To white rest, and a place of rest
Invisible at dawn,--
And yet with neither love nor hate,
Those starts like somw snow-white
Minerva's snow-white marble eyes
Without the gift of sight.
How countlessly they congregate
O'er our tumultuous snow,
Which flows in shapes as tall as trees
When wintry winds do blow!--
As if with keeness for our fate,
Our faltering few steps on
To white rest, and a place of rest
Invisible at dawn,--
And yet with neither love nor hate,
Those starts like somw snow-white
Minerva's snow-white marble eyes
Without the gift of sight.
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Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 87
From: Southern California
lol, i dunno why everyone likes Poe. He drank ether and fucked his cousin... chances are you're gonna write some fucked up **** with that combination goin on.
From a once english major's point of view you can go with...
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Robert Frost
T.S. Elliot (His stuff is good if you can get through it)
Syliva Plath
Robert Browning
William Carlos Williams (he has an awesome poem called "The Red Wheelbarrow")
and William Woodsworth
My two pesonal reccomendations- Carlos Williams and Browning very classy poets.
Edit: Or you could go with any old school rapper (i.e. Two Pac, or Bone Thugs). If your teacher doesn't let you do a rap artists (that talks about something other than bling) then your english teacher sucks.
From a once english major's point of view you can go with...
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Robert Frost
T.S. Elliot (His stuff is good if you can get through it)
Syliva Plath
Robert Browning
William Carlos Williams (he has an awesome poem called "The Red Wheelbarrow")
and William Woodsworth
My two pesonal reccomendations- Carlos Williams and Browning very classy poets.
Edit: Or you could go with any old school rapper (i.e. Two Pac, or Bone Thugs). If your teacher doesn't let you do a rap artists (that talks about something other than bling) then your english teacher sucks.
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From: santurce
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Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 354
From: PA
One of my fav poems of all time. "My Galley charged with forgetfulness" by Sir Thomas Wyatt. LINK
It's a bit hard to understand at face value, but the poem compares missing your love to being adrift on a dark and stormy sea. Good stuff. I vote for Frost too...that guy was amazing
It's a bit hard to understand at face value, but the poem compares missing your love to being adrift on a dark and stormy sea. Good stuff. I vote for Frost too...that guy was amazing
