favorite poet

I was just wandering who all your favorite poets are-I like Whitman best I think because I like romanticism, of course I also like Dickinson very much, too.......

As far as the classics go I'd have to say Lord Byron.

So we'll go no more a roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.

For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And Love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a roving
By the light of the moon.

I could NEVER name a favorite poet. Its like trying to name a favorite band.

I wrote this in the 10th grade- 5 years ago.
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A blood stained skull and a rotting corpse,
A walking skeleton mounts his horse.
With hands of fire, and eyes of hate,
He came to kill, and change our fate.
Killed the widows in their sleep.
Took their lives, souls to keep.
Took the men in hordes to die.
Hell's gate open to eternally fry.
Murdered children in their time of play.
Never again to see the light of day.
If you read this and your still filled with glee....
you better turn around because this murderer is me!
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Personally I like Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Dickenson (even though much of her work is a bit on the morbid side) and some Shakespere (the sonnets).

My favourite poem has got to be "An Irish Airman Forsees His Death" by Yeats.
(Click here if you don't know it.)

P.s. Dr Toker I can always name my favourite band whenever asked (even though if asked five minutes later I could probably give a different answer :D ) and right now I would say it's the Counting Crows (which as it happens I'm listening to at the moment).

I like Edger Alan Poe for some reason.. although his poems sometimes hint depression, I enjoy reading many of them.. my favorite one is "Dream Within A Dream". You should read it sometime, it really fits life in many ways.

I'd have to agree with you silentstalker. Poe is the man. Very dark and depressed, that would probably be all the cocaine and morphine he did.

He was a true artist. He lived his pain.

Opium dude.....he was known most for 'Chasing The Dragon'. That was what they called getting high on opium back in the dizay.

"These Words I Write Keep Me from Total Madness"

Charles Bukowski is what I prefer to read, not quote or read aloud for my girlfriend though :).

Quote:

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"question and answer"

he sat naked and drunk in a room of summer
night, running the blade of the knife
under his fingernails, smiling, thinking
of all the letters he had received
telling him that
the way he lived and wrote about
that--
it had kept them going when
all seemed
truly
hopeless.

putting the blade on the table, he
flicked it with a finger
and it whirled
in a flashing circle
under the light.

who the hell is going to save
me? he
thought.

as the knife stopped spinning
the answer came:
you're going to have to
save yourself.

still smiling,
a: he lit a
cigarette
b: he poured
another
drink
c: gave the blade
another
spin.

Source: Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems

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Yes, I would also have to agree with silentstalker, Poe is wanderful. I love how he kind of turns the Raven into a whole short story. I also have been reading quite a bit of Robert Frost lately too......

Yes, I would also have to agree with silentstalker, Poe is wanderful. I love how he kind of turns the Raven into a whole short story. I also have been reading quite a bit of Robert Frost lately too......

Yes, I would also have to agree with silentstalker, Poe is wanderful. I love how he kind of turns the Raven into a whole short story. I also have been reading quite a bit of Robert Frost lately too......

My favorite poet?...


Zach from Rage Against the Machine / Jonathan Davis from KoRn...

But if your talking about past poets,... I'd say Edgar Allen Poe.

edgar allen poe, and ginsburg

I like Byron alot but I must say that my all time favourite is Kirkegaard, the danish writer and philosopher. Oh, and Kipling:

I could not dig, I dared not rob.
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies have proved untrue,
and I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among,
mine angry, and defrauded young?

Poe is excellent, as are Frost, Shakepeare, Byron, and Ginsburg. I am a big fan of Robert Burns, Ranier Maria Rilke, and Hildegard von Bingen.

I’m surprised, I didn’t thing so many people liked byron. Although with so many programmers here, I really shouldn’t be, with Ada named after his daughter Ada Lovelace….Byron rules.

Howl and Kaddish, the whole beat thing grabs me from time to time…anybody ever hear of the fuggs.

Poe, sometimes I think he’s fantastic, other times I wish I could tell him to stop the pity party.

Contemporary, for me its Jim Carroll, Void of Course, but ill probably change my mind next month.