Poetry
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From: Fayetteville, Georgia
Okay all you poetry buffs! :bigok: I need some help!
I need a poem from a Romantic poet. Not as in love romantic, but as in the style of writing romantic.
Anyone with a good poem?
Just thought I'd ask...since I'm bored...
I need a poem from a Romantic poet. Not as in love romantic, but as in the style of writing romantic.
Anyone with a good poem?
Just thought I'd ask...since I'm bored...
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From: Close enough to annoy you.
The splendor falls on castle walls
On snowy summit old in story
The long light shakes across the lake
And the wild cateract leaps in glory
Blow bugles blow
Set the wild echos flying
Blow bugles answer echos
Dying dying dying
Oh hark! Oh hear! How thin and clear!
And higher clearer farther going
How sweet and far from cliff and scar
The horns of elfland faintly blowing
Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying
Blow bugles answer echos
Dying dying dying
Oh love they die in yon rich sky
They faint on hill and field and river
Our echos roll from soul to soul
And grow forever and forever
Blow bugles blow
Set the wild echos flying
And answer echos answer
Dying dying dying
-- Lord Alfred Tynneson
I think he classifies as romantic but don't quote me on that. I'm more an EE Cummings person myself. Still one of my all time favorite poets.
On snowy summit old in story
The long light shakes across the lake
And the wild cateract leaps in glory
Blow bugles blow
Set the wild echos flying
Blow bugles answer echos
Dying dying dying
Oh hark! Oh hear! How thin and clear!
And higher clearer farther going
How sweet and far from cliff and scar
The horns of elfland faintly blowing
Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying
Blow bugles answer echos
Dying dying dying
Oh love they die in yon rich sky
They faint on hill and field and river
Our echos roll from soul to soul
And grow forever and forever
Blow bugles blow
Set the wild echos flying
And answer echos answer
Dying dying dying
-- Lord Alfred Tynneson
I think he classifies as romantic but don't quote me on that. I'm more an EE Cummings person myself. Still one of my all time favorite poets.
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From: teh frozen nort
Tennyson is technically Victorian, not Romantic. Romantic era started with Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Coleridge tends to be a bit overblown for my taste but Wordsworth is pretty good. Also good are Shelly and Keats. Keats' "Ode to a Grecian Urn" is pretty much the manifesto of the late Romantic pantheistic philosophy. http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poe...ms/keats19.html
But I likewise prefer later stuff, Frost in my case. A little more down to earth.
Coleridge tends to be a bit overblown for my taste but Wordsworth is pretty good. Also good are Shelly and Keats. Keats' "Ode to a Grecian Urn" is pretty much the manifesto of the late Romantic pantheistic philosophy. http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poe...ms/keats19.html
But I likewise prefer later stuff, Frost in my case. A little more down to earth.
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From: Close enough to annoy you.
Thanks for jogging the old memory DJ 
I like Frost as well, not usually fond of Keats.
Ozymandius is an excellent poem by Shelly. Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner would be fun to submit as it takes forever and a day to read it.
Oscar Wilde writes some solid stuff, Ballad of Reading Gaol jumps to mind.
Wha? I like poetry
I like Frost as well, not usually fond of Keats.
Ozymandius is an excellent poem by Shelly. Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner would be fun to submit as it takes forever and a day to read it.
Oscar Wilde writes some solid stuff, Ballad of Reading Gaol jumps to mind.
Wha? I like poetry
