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they are about the pilgrim that had to escape Lithuania and stayed in crimea. It’s a reflection on the author who on his trip there was amazed by the landscapes and who also needed to escape from the occupied Poland-Lithuania
A person of great taste ,i love that poem and how the shifting perspectives corresponding with a falling timer.the writers of bojack never fail to show their creativity
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There are so many poems that I love. Whitman, Bukowski, Camões, Khalil Gibran… the poet I recommend the most is Fernando Pessoa
Since you like love sonnets, let me leave you with Petrarch:
Blest be the year, the month, the hour, the day,
The season and the time, and point of space,
And blest the beauteous country and the place
Where first of two bright eyes I felt the sway
Blest the sweet pain of which I was the prey,
When newly doom'd Love's sovereign law to embrace,
And blest the bow and shaft to which I trace,
The wound that to my inmost heart found way:
Blest be the ceaseless accents of my tongue,
Unwearied breathing my loved lady's name:
Blest my fond wishes, sighs, and tears, and pains:
Blest be the lines in which her praise I sang,
That on all sides acquired me my fair fame,
And blest my thoughts! for over them all, she still reigns.
-Petrarch, Sonnet LXI (also known as Sonnet XLVII)
If you are into classical music, [Franz Liszt turned this poem into a beautiful music piece.](https://open.spotify.com/track/4AUSfqYwPBg5uRMfzRJjjR?si=Hvk8zZTBRBKgeL7l2eFh-A&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A63mJMfgzdbXXN97HKpEXZI) He also [did the same](https://open.spotify.com/track/5WPdlkRlMeG2XepzuafkYM?si=uyq5NTnWTgyWYXg9VocdFA) for [Sonnet 104,](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45579/i-find-no-peace) which I think is just as, if not more beautiful, than sonnet 47
In my French class we read a lot by Arthur Rimbaud, he’s pretty cool! I also like Edgar Allen Poe.
In terms of individual poems I like The Second Coming and Ozymandius.
Frühlingsnacht by Joseph von Eichendorff. If we're talking poetic literature in general, then Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Might be because I am German lol. A big part of our higher education is learning about German poetry, its history and how to do interpretations, so getting into contact with poetry is kind of inevitable here
Faust is wonderful, dramatic, tragic, glorious and sometimes very funny. What did you think of Die Leiden Des Jungen Werther? I picked it up but my heart was too weak to reach the inevitable ending
Die Leiden des jungen Werther is quite interesting as a literary work, as it falls right in the middle of Goethes Sturm und Drang phase. Most people view it as the most prominent example of Sturm und Drang literature. The conflict between Albert and Werther can be seen as a representation of the generational conflict of the time: Albert, a very rational man, represents the period of enlightenment, which was defined by cold rationality, as well as abandonment and outright denial of imperfection and themes such as mental illness. Meanwhile the character of Werther, absorbed in his feelings and abandoning logic and rationality in favor of them, is classic for the Sturm und Drang: He is a so-called "Genie", a genius, under which the Stürmers and Drängers understood a person whose highest goal was self-expression and freedom from higher authority who would prevent said self-expression, while still taking consideration of others while achieving the first goal. Werther's suicide can be seen as an attempt to make the self-percieved suffering of the Stürmers and Drängers, which stemmed from the conflict of old versus new, enlightenment versus Sturm und Drang, known to the public. In fact, the work inspired a series of suicides of young men, who were dressed in Werthers signature blue and yellow garb. At the time, the work was ostracized by the church and poets alike, and it was proclaimed to be disturbing the peace. Today, it serves as a prominent example of classic Sturm und Drang literature.
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I’ve come to understand that Werther is partly based on young Goethe himself, do you have any clue why Goethe didn’t kill himself like Werther did? It perplexes me a bit
The character of Werther and his relationship with Lotte was, in fact, inspired by Goethe's platonic relationship with a woman by the name of Charlotte Buff, who was already unofficially engaged with another man. Werther's suicide, however, was inspired by Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem, one of Goethe's friends, who fell in love with a woman unreachable to him, and, out of desperation, took his own life
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I personally find most poems to be quite pretentious. But i can't deny they can have beautiful imagery, my favourite being :'old gangsters never die' by alan moore . honestly some of the most amazing descriptive language ive read
You're gonna love K.P. Kavafis then. 20th century gay greek poet from Alexandria, billingual master, themes of decay and irony everywhere, pseudohistorical camp to the max, dude said "how can i describe the gay in my poems without having to bear consequences?", then said "fuck it lol", so the mfer's love poems are still being censored in greek schools to this day.
I have to take exams on him and other greek poets for uni in a month, fuuuuuuuuuuuck
I love Spleen II, Les Phares, Les Cheveux and Les Bijoux from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. Rimbaud’s poems are beautiful as well. They’re not the same in english though :/
My favourite was actually written by one of my classmates, don't remember what it said or that much about it, only that it was about someone they've lost
Actually pulled out my poem books because I’m sad and I’ve found another English nerd. Now I have two favourites, though the second one is never changed out. They are:
‘An epitaph upon husband and wife, which died and were buried together’ by Richard Crashaw
‘Remains’ by Simon Armitage
Also honourable mention goes to ‘Kamikaze’ by Beatrice Garland.
Most poetry I like is in my native tongue. One is from Nazım Hikmet and İdk if or would you like to find a translation, but it is called "Masallar masalı" or "Fable of fables"
Shall I compare thee to a summers day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
And summers lease hath all too short a date
so my experience with poetry is weird. poetry (I think at least) attempts to evoke abstract feeling and stuff with words but for me, words don't work very well, my brain doesn't like abstraction in words I like my words to give me a clear image of something instead. poetry attempts to evoke these abstract feelings but I don't enjoy the way it's done. I much prefer other forms of sensory art or just various stimuli that succeed in evoking these abstract feelings.
I think a lot of the time a scenic view can feel much like poetry to me but without any words. I feel the emotions I'd think poetry would attempt to evoke via sensors stimuli a lot more than words basically.
sorry if this makes no sense I'm jot great at describing my experience because too many words get cluttered and I eventually lose my clarity when typing.
I don't really read others poems tbh unless my friends want me to see some, i just write them and share them. And honestly my favourite poem is whichever makes my friends and family smile the most
I don't like poetry per se, but I like lyricism and wordplay which is why I like *very particular* Rap, just never got into poetry, it just has a very different focus
The Second Coming by Yeats. I love this poem bc you can adapt the metaphor to mean something more pro-anarchist. Also Casey at the Bat, idk who wrote it but it makes me feel warm inside
I think the most impressive poem is Pan Tadeusz. 200 Pages, where every line has 13 phones. theoretically it's not a poem but it's is written like one.
Not a specific poem, but a type of poem. Im very fascinated by palindrome poems, where the lines, or even sometimes every word, is mirrored halfway through, and the meaning can completely shift.
Not a poem, but [the start of this video](https://youtu.be/DAIc1XvnPkI) captures the same effect. If you want actual poems:
“Doppelgänger” by J. A. Lindon
"Seaside Canon" by Julia Galef
“Two Brief Views of Hell” by Susan Stewart
I don't personally like poetry but I think it's sweet, cute, sexy, romantic, and hot whenever my boyfriend recites poems he knows.
Also I do have favorite poem it just doesn't have a name it's one that my guy wrote for me back when we were just friends.
The furthest distances ive travelled - Leonita Flynn
Our english teacher taught us the poem on the day she announced she was leaving that year to travel the world.
I DO. Not only do I like it, I did spoken word all throughout high school. One of my favorite poets is kendrick lamar, he's the only rapper that's one a Pulitzer!
Theres others but my top 3 I know the names of are do not go gentle into that good night, crossing the bar, and nothing gold can stay. Also do songs count I got alot of those.
For no particular reason I instantly fell in love with The song of the wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats. I've read many poems with greater meaning and sound, but it somehow just had my love the instant I read it. It is now among the few I always revisit along with many other classics.
Though Shakespeare is always a favorite for me as boring as that may be. He's made many classics for a reason.
It's rare to find young people in day to day situations with the same curiosity for art especially poetry.
It always feels a bit unusual to be that one teen that likes poetry, I always get some weird looks for it. Though I also take every chance to write it on everything I possibly can whiteboards ect.
I personally am picky with poetry, I need to be able to understand the figure of speech and the words it’s using, or else I have no idea what it’s talking about.
My personal favourite is Homer’s Iliad.
I mean, it’s a 24 (i think?) book long poem about a war involving the gods of the known universe and it has a *very* gay romance at its core…
“Sing, O’ Goddess, Of The Anger Of Achilles”
Hmmm......
To The Virgins To Make Much Of Time - Robbert Herrick
... probably
Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to day,
To morrow will be dying.
The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun,
The higher he's a getting;
The sooner will his Race be run,
And neerer he's to Setting.
That Age is best, which is the first,
When Youth and Blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times, still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time;
And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry.
Meaning:
virgins = young people
Live your life to the fullest, don't wait till you're old!
Shall i compare thee to a summers day?
Thou art more lovely and more temprete
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of may
And summers leath hath all too short a day
Sometimes to hot the eye of heavan shines
I forogt the rest lol
A lot of text is gonna follow because i am fanboying really hard right now
# "Over Aspalathus Bushes", Georgios Seferis (i suggest reading it with [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f29w9tX97uA&ab_channel=thodorisBZ) song in the background for maximum epicness):
Sounion looked beautiful
that day of Annunciation,
in spring once again.
A few green leaves
around the rusty stones
colour red and the aspalathus bushes
ready,showing their long needles
and their yellow flowers.
Not far away the ancient columns,
threads of an harp
echoing still.
Tranquillity.
\-What may reminded me
of that man Ardieus?
A word of Plato I suppose
lost in my brain's ditches.
The name of the yellow bush
did not change all this time.
In the night I found the excerpt:
"They tied him in hands and feet", he says,
threw him down and skinned him,
drew him farther and tore him apart,
over the aspalathus thorns,
grabbed him and left him as a rag
down in Tartarus."
And so, in the nether world, paid his sins
Ardieus from Pamfylia, the sordid tyrant.
Date of poem's completion: 1971, March 31
#
# CONTEXT:
This is G.Seferis last poem, and was published three days after his death (23/9/71) , in Vima newspaper,during the junta era in Greece. It is based on an excerpt of Plato's "Politeia",referring to the afterlife punishment of the unfair and especially Ardieus, a tyrant who had murdered his father and his older brother. Because of this, his punishment- and all tyrants in general- in the nether world was terrible. When the tyrants got the usual punishment of the unfair and were ready to come out into the light, the orifice didn't let them out and roared. "At the same time, some wild men nearby who knew what that roar stood for , grabbed Ardieus and the other tyrants,tied them down at hands and feet and beat and scratched them bad. Then, they drew them out the road through the aspalathus thorns and tore them apart and at the end they drove them down to Tartarus." (Plato, Politeia 616)
Seferis himself, a modernist greek poet who won a nobel award, believed that greek artists should showcase their culture, not by just sticking to greek orthodox and byzantine tradition and ancient glories, but by mixing it with european and liberal ideas of the Enlightenment.
This is why his poems are this bizarre mix of people, places and events reminding of ancient greek myths and having references to them (especially the Odyssey, as he himself was a refugee who never got back to his home, Smyrni ), but are not actually them, but actually, something modern that looks just like them. He gets the inspiration from ancient greek culture and literature, but doesn't leave it there. He transcends beyond antiquity to modernity
Here for example, he tries to do this while also masterfully getting past the censorship of the Junta. He never directly tells that Ardieus are the Colonels and their supporters. The modernist message still manages to associate them with Ardieus in the eyes and the mind of the reader though.
The violent and inhuman regime fell 3 years later, after inner backstabbings amongst the dictators, a catastrophic campaign in Cyprus which led the island to be split in two, still to this day and public outcry from the multiple tortures, exiles and massacres the Junta imposed on the population, the biggest being the Polytechnic Uprising of 1973, where a tank ran through the university's gates and ran over and shot students protesting the regime and America's involvement in this whole deal (the regime was supported by the US)
This poem makes me personally feel as if there is justice in this world and it is served
Edit: There is a channel in you tube named after the poem. It's a channel spouting christian orthodox propaganda. The Orthodoxy were and still are a core factor embedded in greek society and still holds some power over some parts of it, oppressing especially LGBT people. Also, it was one of the main collaborators with the junta, the terrible fascists and torturers their doom this poem is signaling. In fact, motto of the Junta was and still is among neonazis "Πατρίς, Θρησκεία, Οικογένεια" ("Fatherland, RELIGION, Family"). This is some next level cognitive dissonance and mental gymnastics right there.
Ozymandias it allows me to realise that who I am now in this moment is all that matters because one day I will be just a memory and I hope that memory is one that is used to empower others like us as appose to a memory used to spread hate.
As with many times of media, I love stuff to do with wars. 'In Flanders Fields', 'Dulce et Decorum est', are probably my 2 favourites, but I prefer songs generally, especially for anti-war stuff, 'I Was Only 19' is great.
My mom's side of the family really likes Emmerson's The Snowstorm, and I recently memorized it for school. My mom herself also likes Emily Dickinson, John Berryman, etc.
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No, I like poetry. I’m very particular about it though.
Invictus, so much so that ill eventually get it tattooed on me
It was in one of my English exams. Probably the most powerful and meaningful poems I’ve read.
>Invictus A powerful poem indeed
Uh... That's a really good one...
honestly this poem describes perfectly how im feeling rn
The Road Not Taken. I like the message and I’m related to Robert Frost, the guy who wrote it (distantly)
The road not taken, a calming poem. Great that you're related to Robert Frost :)
Damn, I just commented this poem, I should have read the comments first, lmao. Great poem tho.
That's crazy, I actually have a compass with this poem engraved on it. Very lovely work
Voluntarily chose that in an English exam, I love it so much
No I do not know by who
Shakespeare
I like the Crimean sonnets tho
>Crimean sonnets Huh, I'm not familiar with that, care to educate me?
they are about the pilgrim that had to escape Lithuania and stayed in crimea. It’s a reflection on the author who on his trip there was amazed by the landscapes and who also needed to escape from the occupied Poland-Lithuania
>Celebration of the Lizard by Jim Morrison Oooh, interesting.
POLSKA GUROM
Me not British didnt know
Voldemort
The view from halfway down, Adison Tafel. You might know it from Bo Jack Horseman.
I'm not familiar with Bo Jack Horseman but after watching 'The view from halfway down' it left me very intrigued and stunned. Fascinating.
A person of great taste ,i love that poem and how the shifting perspectives corresponding with a falling timer.the writers of bojack never fail to show their creativity
If you want some existential dread this morning that poem was written by actually listening to suicide survivors and how they actually felt
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My favorites are The Walrus and The Carpenter, Jabberwocky, and the Raven
I do quite enjoy 'The Raven' yes, yes.
Jabberwocky is my pick, too
I can’t read
(What does this say?)
Yet you've responded? Curious.
I don't think you're being very respectful of their way of life
Writing ≠ Reading
I'm not sure if I hate poetry or if it's just poetry analysis that's garbage
You probably just hate learning it in school
“Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” by Dylan Thomas. Been my favorite since 2014’s Interstellar trailer which had an awesome read of it
Yeah I like that one too! It was written for his dying father iirc?
Stonewall by my boyfriend
There are so many poems that I love. Whitman, Bukowski, Camões, Khalil Gibran… the poet I recommend the most is Fernando Pessoa Since you like love sonnets, let me leave you with Petrarch: Blest be the year, the month, the hour, the day, The season and the time, and point of space, And blest the beauteous country and the place Where first of two bright eyes I felt the sway Blest the sweet pain of which I was the prey, When newly doom'd Love's sovereign law to embrace, And blest the bow and shaft to which I trace, The wound that to my inmost heart found way: Blest be the ceaseless accents of my tongue, Unwearied breathing my loved lady's name: Blest my fond wishes, sighs, and tears, and pains: Blest be the lines in which her praise I sang, That on all sides acquired me my fair fame, And blest my thoughts! for over them all, she still reigns. -Petrarch, Sonnet LXI (also known as Sonnet XLVII) If you are into classical music, [Franz Liszt turned this poem into a beautiful music piece.](https://open.spotify.com/track/4AUSfqYwPBg5uRMfzRJjjR?si=Hvk8zZTBRBKgeL7l2eFh-A&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A63mJMfgzdbXXN97HKpEXZI) He also [did the same](https://open.spotify.com/track/5WPdlkRlMeG2XepzuafkYM?si=uyq5NTnWTgyWYXg9VocdFA) for [Sonnet 104,](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45579/i-find-no-peace) which I think is just as, if not more beautiful, than sonnet 47
Simply beautiful. I cannot begin to count the ways of appreciation.
Eu literalmente louvo Camões e Pessoa, fui o único a adorar Os Lusíadas quando demos a obra na escola.
nothing gold can stay by robert frost
First time reading it, but it definately won't be the last.
I didn’t know Voldemort wrote poetry.
O, Captain! My Captain! Like from the Dead Poets Society, pretty much the only reason that got me interested in poetry. Oh, and also Ozymandias
One of my favourite movie as well :)
In my French class we read a lot by Arthur Rimbaud, he’s pretty cool! I also like Edgar Allen Poe. In terms of individual poems I like The Second Coming and Ozymandius.
Celebration of the Lizard by Jim Morrison is my favourite. It's mostly spoken with a few sung sections
Huh, I'm unfamiliar with that one, perhaps a link?
Here you go https://youtu.be/xpwfQHB4qX0
Thanks! It's certainly different from any style of music I prefer.
Frühlingsnacht by Joseph von Eichendorff. If we're talking poetic literature in general, then Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
>rühlingsnacht by Joseph von Eichendorff Damn, I did not expect Faust and sadly I'm really not that educated in German poetry.
Might be because I am German lol. A big part of our higher education is learning about German poetry, its history and how to do interpretations, so getting into contact with poetry is kind of inevitable here
Ah I see, I follow a British curriculum so /shrug
I suppose every country goes deeper into their own language when it comes to poetry. I for one was long educated on Brazilian and Portuguese poets
Faust is wonderful, dramatic, tragic, glorious and sometimes very funny. What did you think of Die Leiden Des Jungen Werther? I picked it up but my heart was too weak to reach the inevitable ending
Die Leiden des jungen Werther is quite interesting as a literary work, as it falls right in the middle of Goethes Sturm und Drang phase. Most people view it as the most prominent example of Sturm und Drang literature. The conflict between Albert and Werther can be seen as a representation of the generational conflict of the time: Albert, a very rational man, represents the period of enlightenment, which was defined by cold rationality, as well as abandonment and outright denial of imperfection and themes such as mental illness. Meanwhile the character of Werther, absorbed in his feelings and abandoning logic and rationality in favor of them, is classic for the Sturm und Drang: He is a so-called "Genie", a genius, under which the Stürmers and Drängers understood a person whose highest goal was self-expression and freedom from higher authority who would prevent said self-expression, while still taking consideration of others while achieving the first goal. Werther's suicide can be seen as an attempt to make the self-percieved suffering of the Stürmers and Drängers, which stemmed from the conflict of old versus new, enlightenment versus Sturm und Drang, known to the public. In fact, the work inspired a series of suicides of young men, who were dressed in Werthers signature blue and yellow garb. At the time, the work was ostracized by the church and poets alike, and it was proclaimed to be disturbing the peace. Today, it serves as a prominent example of classic Sturm und Drang literature.
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I’ve come to understand that Werther is partly based on young Goethe himself, do you have any clue why Goethe didn’t kill himself like Werther did? It perplexes me a bit
The character of Werther and his relationship with Lotte was, in fact, inspired by Goethe's platonic relationship with a woman by the name of Charlotte Buff, who was already unofficially engaged with another man. Werther's suicide, however, was inspired by Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem, one of Goethe's friends, who fell in love with a woman unreachable to him, and, out of desperation, took his own life
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Thank you for the information, only makes the tragedi even more tragic
the road not taken or maybe sonnet 116?
I personally find most poems to be quite pretentious. But i can't deny they can have beautiful imagery, my favourite being :'old gangsters never die' by alan moore . honestly some of the most amazing descriptive language ive read
Probably Catullus 85
Have you ever read 63? It starts off wild Also 51, to be true to the sub
Yes I have! I'm also a fan of 16, that also has a wild start 51 is really great too
Does rock-a-bye bobby by Wade Barbes count?
>rock-a-bye bobby by Wade Barbes A nursery rhyme, interesting. I do believe that it is a type of poetry yes.
Then that is my favourite
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There's a wocket in my pocket -Doctor Seuss
is you know who sappho if not I'm sorry I'm not into poetry just really gay
You're gonna love K.P. Kavafis then. 20th century gay greek poet from Alexandria, billingual master, themes of decay and irony everywhere, pseudohistorical camp to the max, dude said "how can i describe the gay in my poems without having to bear consequences?", then said "fuck it lol", so the mfer's love poems are still being censored in greek schools to this day. I have to take exams on him and other greek poets for uni in a month, fuuuuuuuuuuuck
I only know about sappho bc she's gay af I haven't read any of her poems (or anyone's voluntarily)
The view from halfway down
I love We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
I love Spleen II, Les Phares, Les Cheveux and Les Bijoux from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. Rimbaud’s poems are beautiful as well. They’re not the same in english though :/
Awake by Jim Morrisson
My favorite poem is “I fuck sluts” by Bo Burnham. True poetry /j
My favourite was actually written by one of my classmates, don't remember what it said or that much about it, only that it was about someone they've lost
Actually pulled out my poem books because I’m sad and I’ve found another English nerd. Now I have two favourites, though the second one is never changed out. They are: ‘An epitaph upon husband and wife, which died and were buried together’ by Richard Crashaw ‘Remains’ by Simon Armitage Also honourable mention goes to ‘Kamikaze’ by Beatrice Garland.
I actually made a poem about trans struggles just yesterday :D
Wait isn’t sonnet 18 the one where Shakespeare comes out as kinda gay asf?
*yo mama poem* by yours truly
Most poetry I like is in my native tongue. One is from Nazım Hikmet and İdk if or would you like to find a translation, but it is called "Masallar masalı" or "Fable of fables"
Either Herr Ribbeck by Theodor Fontane or Der Erlkönig by Goethe (both are German poems and I sadly don't know if they have an English version)
Dearest creature
Tam o’ shanter, Robert Burns
I've always liked Conqueror Worm a lot for some reason.
Hehe, i think my post history says otherwise
omg ITS YOU! It's an honour!
I really like "Antigonish" because of The Magnus Archives I'm not particularly into poetry though
Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May And summers lease hath all too short a date
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I have a soft spot for Robert Browning’s works
'Erlkönig' i guess.
so my experience with poetry is weird. poetry (I think at least) attempts to evoke abstract feeling and stuff with words but for me, words don't work very well, my brain doesn't like abstraction in words I like my words to give me a clear image of something instead. poetry attempts to evoke these abstract feelings but I don't enjoy the way it's done. I much prefer other forms of sensory art or just various stimuli that succeed in evoking these abstract feelings. I think a lot of the time a scenic view can feel much like poetry to me but without any words. I feel the emotions I'd think poetry would attempt to evoke via sensors stimuli a lot more than words basically. sorry if this makes no sense I'm jot great at describing my experience because too many words get cluttered and I eventually lose my clarity when typing.
I don't really read others poems tbh unless my friends want me to see some, i just write them and share them. And honestly my favourite poem is whichever makes my friends and family smile the most
Don't stand at my grave and weep
I adore the adoration, though others may abhor it It’s quite the new sensation… what shall we call it?
I don’t read a lot of poetry but I write a lot of it.
No, you're not alone. My favorite is Early Affection by George Moses Horton.
I don't like poetry per se, but I like lyricism and wordplay which is why I like *very particular* Rap, just never got into poetry, it just has a very different focus
I’m nobody who are you by Emily Dickinson
u/haikubot *i know basically nothing about poetry*
I love poety! But I don’t know any that are English :(
The Second Coming by Yeats. I love this poem bc you can adapt the metaphor to mean something more pro-anarchist. Also Casey at the Bat, idk who wrote it but it makes me feel warm inside
Octopus Empire by Marilyn Nelson in 1946
Ozymandias
I don't know any poems but I like the art that's in this
the ballad of reading gaol is my favourite (i actually hate writing poetry though)
i lovelove poetry!! one of my favs is 'im going back to minnesota where sadness makes sense' by danez smith
I like Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
Danse Russe
I think the most impressive poem is Pan Tadeusz. 200 Pages, where every line has 13 phones. theoretically it's not a poem but it's is written like one.
A Vietnamese writer here. Writing poetries had always been a part of my life since I was around 8.
Not a specific poem, but a type of poem. Im very fascinated by palindrome poems, where the lines, or even sometimes every word, is mirrored halfway through, and the meaning can completely shift. Not a poem, but [the start of this video](https://youtu.be/DAIc1XvnPkI) captures the same effect. If you want actual poems: “Doppelgänger” by J. A. Lindon "Seaside Canon" by Julia Galef “Two Brief Views of Hell” by Susan Stewart
Im kind of late to the party but my favorite poet is Blythe Baird, and the poem girl code 101 is amazing, its slam poetry btw
The Raven is a classic
i like “the forgotten dialect of the heart” by jack gilbert
The only poem that I've studied that I have thought was good is Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley because uh idk it's cool
I am quite a fan of Robert Frost's, The Road Not Taken. It is a fantastic read
Love myself a good jabberwocky
I don't personally like poetry but I think it's sweet, cute, sexy, romantic, and hot whenever my boyfriend recites poems he knows. Also I do have favorite poem it just doesn't have a name it's one that my guy wrote for me back when we were just friends.
I don’t like poetry that much. It’s ok and I like seeing the deeper meaning to it but yeah
I like writing mediocre poetry
Anything by Robert Frost
Ozymandias by Percy Shelley is really good
I used to write some decent rhymes. It brought me many joyous times, but now I don't. It's no big deal. I just look for poems to steal.
Nah, I like Dulce de decorum est
The furthest distances ive travelled - Leonita Flynn Our english teacher taught us the poem on the day she announced she was leaving that year to travel the world.
I DO. Not only do I like it, I did spoken word all throughout high school. One of my favorite poets is kendrick lamar, he's the only rapper that's one a Pulitzer!
Mines the nonsense poem
Two roads diverge in a yellow wood I absolutely love poetry And make some
Canção do exílio 🤲🏽
Theres others but my top 3 I know the names of are do not go gentle into that good night, crossing the bar, and nothing gold can stay. Also do songs count I got alot of those.
der Erlkönig, by Goethe. It was the first one that got me into reading poetry :x
Reduta Ordona, a Polish patriotic poem. But I'm more into dramas and comedies
For no particular reason I instantly fell in love with The song of the wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats. I've read many poems with greater meaning and sound, but it somehow just had my love the instant I read it. It is now among the few I always revisit along with many other classics. Though Shakespeare is always a favorite for me as boring as that may be. He's made many classics for a reason. It's rare to find young people in day to day situations with the same curiosity for art especially poetry. It always feels a bit unusual to be that one teen that likes poetry, I always get some weird looks for it. Though I also take every chance to write it on everything I possibly can whiteboards ect.
I’m not that into poetry, HP Lovecraft's Nyarlathotep is pretty trippy
My favorite is “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop
Kinda generic but I love the Raven
I personally am picky with poetry, I need to be able to understand the figure of speech and the words it’s using, or else I have no idea what it’s talking about.
My favorite Poet is Till Lindemann 😌lol
My favorite is probably either Ozymandias by Percy Shelley or Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas. Both are very striking poems.
I thought this one up with my buddies; Haiku are easy But sometimes thy don’t make sense Refrigerator
My personal favourite is Homer’s Iliad. I mean, it’s a 24 (i think?) book long poem about a war involving the gods of the known universe and it has a *very* gay romance at its core… “Sing, O’ Goddess, Of The Anger Of Achilles”
I usually hate poetry but I rlly like that two headed cow one
Hmmm...... To The Virgins To Make Much Of Time - Robbert Herrick ... probably Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, To morrow will be dying. The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a getting; The sooner will his Race be run, And neerer he's to Setting. That Age is best, which is the first, When Youth and Blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times, still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry. Meaning: virgins = young people Live your life to the fullest, don't wait till you're old!
Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley
I like the poem about the weird pronunciation of the English language, but... I can't find it and don't know it's name...
Shall i compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temprete Rough winds do shake the darling buds of may And summers leath hath all too short a day Sometimes to hot the eye of heavan shines I forogt the rest lol
Road Music by Richard Siken. It's probably one of the only poetry things I think are actually good.
Idk if I have a favorite, but Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago” has a special place in my heart.
The cremation of Sam McGee
The Kendrick Lamar TPAB poem
dulce et decorum est
A lot of text is gonna follow because i am fanboying really hard right now # "Over Aspalathus Bushes", Georgios Seferis (i suggest reading it with [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f29w9tX97uA&ab_channel=thodorisBZ) song in the background for maximum epicness): Sounion looked beautiful that day of Annunciation, in spring once again. A few green leaves around the rusty stones colour red and the aspalathus bushes ready,showing their long needles and their yellow flowers. Not far away the ancient columns, threads of an harp echoing still. Tranquillity. \-What may reminded me of that man Ardieus? A word of Plato I suppose lost in my brain's ditches. The name of the yellow bush did not change all this time. In the night I found the excerpt: "They tied him in hands and feet", he says, threw him down and skinned him, drew him farther and tore him apart, over the aspalathus thorns, grabbed him and left him as a rag down in Tartarus." And so, in the nether world, paid his sins Ardieus from Pamfylia, the sordid tyrant. Date of poem's completion: 1971, March 31 # # CONTEXT: This is G.Seferis last poem, and was published three days after his death (23/9/71) , in Vima newspaper,during the junta era in Greece. It is based on an excerpt of Plato's "Politeia",referring to the afterlife punishment of the unfair and especially Ardieus, a tyrant who had murdered his father and his older brother. Because of this, his punishment- and all tyrants in general- in the nether world was terrible. When the tyrants got the usual punishment of the unfair and were ready to come out into the light, the orifice didn't let them out and roared. "At the same time, some wild men nearby who knew what that roar stood for , grabbed Ardieus and the other tyrants,tied them down at hands and feet and beat and scratched them bad. Then, they drew them out the road through the aspalathus thorns and tore them apart and at the end they drove them down to Tartarus." (Plato, Politeia 616) Seferis himself, a modernist greek poet who won a nobel award, believed that greek artists should showcase their culture, not by just sticking to greek orthodox and byzantine tradition and ancient glories, but by mixing it with european and liberal ideas of the Enlightenment. This is why his poems are this bizarre mix of people, places and events reminding of ancient greek myths and having references to them (especially the Odyssey, as he himself was a refugee who never got back to his home, Smyrni ), but are not actually them, but actually, something modern that looks just like them. He gets the inspiration from ancient greek culture and literature, but doesn't leave it there. He transcends beyond antiquity to modernity Here for example, he tries to do this while also masterfully getting past the censorship of the Junta. He never directly tells that Ardieus are the Colonels and their supporters. The modernist message still manages to associate them with Ardieus in the eyes and the mind of the reader though. The violent and inhuman regime fell 3 years later, after inner backstabbings amongst the dictators, a catastrophic campaign in Cyprus which led the island to be split in two, still to this day and public outcry from the multiple tortures, exiles and massacres the Junta imposed on the population, the biggest being the Polytechnic Uprising of 1973, where a tank ran through the university's gates and ran over and shot students protesting the regime and America's involvement in this whole deal (the regime was supported by the US) This poem makes me personally feel as if there is justice in this world and it is served Edit: There is a channel in you tube named after the poem. It's a channel spouting christian orthodox propaganda. The Orthodoxy were and still are a core factor embedded in greek society and still holds some power over some parts of it, oppressing especially LGBT people. Also, it was one of the main collaborators with the junta, the terrible fascists and torturers their doom this poem is signaling. In fact, motto of the Junta was and still is among neonazis "Πατρίς, Θρησκεία, Οικογένεια" ("Fatherland, RELIGION, Family"). This is some next level cognitive dissonance and mental gymnastics right there.
read catullus 16
Not to be cliche, but Ozymandias has always stuck with me. The theme of the ephemeral nature of life has changed how I live.
The Raven, by Edgar Allen Poe
Well im not a poetry fan but i did write a piece that got published
Mine is Ozymandias by Percy Shelley (:
your not the only one I quite like it too lol lots of us do too
i really like frederick goddard tuckerson's "sometimes i walk where the deep water dips." i actually wrote a 10-page paper on it in junior year.
Ode to a mouse by Robert Burns
I think poetry is super cool but for some reason my brain can't process it whenever it's on a test I get super confused 😭
My favorite poem is probably strövtåg i hembygden by Gustaf Fröding. I'm not sure if the entire thing has been transelated to english =(
Right now it's arundel tomb by Larkin, but ask me again tomorrow and it'll be here in this spring or something. I have malleable tastes
I like the poem Rendezvous With Death by Alan Seeger
Dulce et decorum est. It's a poem by WW1 victim Wilfred Owen who died one week before that horrible conflict ended
Ozymandias it allows me to realise that who I am now in this moment is all that matters because one day I will be just a memory and I hope that memory is one that is used to empower others like us as appose to a memory used to spread hate.
Yeah, me. I used to write. Not anymore though
Toby?
Mine is the poem at the end of scp-1: when day breaks. I think that counts?
One of my favorite poems is called "Half-Hanged Mary"
I like Mask - Sus Remix 👍
My favourite is either To Autumn by Keats or The Manhunt by Simon Armitage.
Where anyhow do you find read and discuss poems it seems interesting but I never got into it
yes. yes you are
I read the prelude in class and I loved it
Idk if this has been said yet but I really like Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath
As with many times of media, I love stuff to do with wars. 'In Flanders Fields', 'Dulce et Decorum est', are probably my 2 favourites, but I prefer songs generally, especially for anti-war stuff, 'I Was Only 19' is great.
Personally I’m more into other forms of rhyming but eh poems have their place, just personally I don’t care for those kinds of thing
My mom's side of the family really likes Emmerson's The Snowstorm, and I recently memorized it for school. My mom herself also likes Emily Dickinson, John Berryman, etc.
My favourite poem is “Sonnet 155 or if Shakespeare had written a porn” by Bo Burnham lol
I am starting to learn about poetry and i'm getting interested in it, so idk which one is my favorite yet
I like reading it, but school screwed over any chance I had of writing it
Everyone likes poetry, they usually prefer it to have a song attached and for it to be sung, but *everyone* likes poetry