Favorite Poems

[miszlhaine30]

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Shall I Compare Thee by William Shakespeare
How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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[Malakoi]

Shakespeare's Sonnet 57, Eliot's "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock", and a lot of Walt Whitman's work.  

[shadow_contractor]

Poems by Shell Silverstein are fun. They help to life me up when i have a bad day whee
Poems by Robert Frost are also good.
I also like "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes. It has a nice rhythm and beat to it.  

[AmenthystMoon]

we had to read the outsiders in english last year and there was a poem by robert frost in it "nothing gold can stay", i loved it, it was the best [oem i have heard to date and it's mamaged to stick with me, i loved how it put into the story and how it can be read to fit the story, yet at the same time it stands alone as a piece of beauty, this is what i mean;


Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
so dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.


isn't it so pretty?  

[The Freckled Onex04]

Ever since I was little the poem "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost was my favorite. I also like "The Missing Piece" by shel silverstein and some of Poe's works.  

[groovygrishma]

I guess my ABSOLUTE favorite poet would have to be... Homer? My favorite poem is The Aeneid and I really like Roman literature smile

It's also why I'm taking Latin in school right now lol
I want to translate Roman literature from their original Latin versions someday...

Someday...

I also really like Everyman (the author is anonymous). I read it in my English class my freshman year, and I love the structure of the whole piece... its fluid yet choppy... I don't know, its hard to describe, but it's a great poem smile  

[groovygrishma]

AmenthystMoon

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
so dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

I don't know what he's implying with the first line... The first green is gold... Autumn before Spring? The cyclical aspect of nature?

I like the poem smile  

[Empress Raven Vulcana]

AmenthystMoon

we had to read the outsiders in english last year and there was a poem by robert frost in it "nothing gold can stay", i loved it, it was the best [oem i have heard to date and it's mamaged to stick with me, i loved how it put into the story and how it can be read to fit the story, yet at the same time it stands alone as a piece of beauty, this is what i mean;


Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
so dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.


isn't it so pretty?

I remember reading this when The Outsiders was taught to us. Oh how I do love this poem. biggrin  

[ScaryMissKari]

The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. Nonsense is fun!  

[penandpaper67]

RagdollBunny

The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. Nonsense is fun!

I analyzed that poem last year! I love it and Lewis Carroll is awesome!  

[chickie94]

I really like If by Rudyard Kipling and nearly all of Emily Dickinson's poems  

[AmenthystMoon]

groovygrishma

AmenthystMoon

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
so dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

I don't know what he's implying with the first line... The first green is gold... Autumn before Spring? The cyclical aspect of nature?

I like the poem smile

i vaguely remember analyzing it, i think the 1st line refers to the golden tones in the morning, you know how when the very first suns rays hit anything, they sort of shine a rich sun-gold. something like that b/c in the 2nd to last line "dawn goes down to day" so once the 1st rays are gone and the day really begins, everything goes to it's normal color, and the gold is lost to the regualr old daylight  

[Rogue_Silence13]

Edgar Allan Poe would have to be my favorite. I love practically all of his work biggrin  

[Shinokamen]

My favorite poems are "The Raven" and "The Conqueror Worm" by Poe, and "The Jabberwocky" by Carrol.

Thanks for introducing me to "The Highwayman"! It is an excellent poem.  

[unknown_zoso05]

Quote:

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

~ Emily Dickinson

I also adore "Romance" by Arthur Rimbaud and everything by Charles Baudeliare.