I love poetry and my all time favorite is Sylvia Plath. She has some really awesome poems and her biography is very intriging. I don't know if any of you are familiar with her, but she is probably most famous for gassing herself with her children in the next room after a long bout with depression Gwyneth Paltrow portrayed her in "Sylvia" last year. I highly recommend it.

Who are some of your favorites?

Smooches;)

I quite like Edgar Allan Poe, he's not my favourite though. I like The fall of the House of Usher, (It's not one his poems but a story.)

Depends on my mood, usually either T. S. Eliot, or Robert Frost, I also like most of the Romantic and pre Romantic poets

Shausler...

ScarLettPussy!

Scartlett, too...

Devant une neige un Etre de Beauté de haute taille. Des sifflements de mort et des cercles de musique sourde fontmonter, s'élargir et trembler comme un spectre ce corps adoré, des blessures écarlates et noires éclatent dans les chairs superbes. Les couleurs propres de la vie se foncent, dansent, et se dégagent autour de la Vision, sur le chantier. Et les frissons s'élèvent et grondent et la saveur forcenée de ces effets se chargeant avec les sifflements mortels et les rauques musiques que le monde, loin derrière nous, lance sur notre mère de beauté, - elle recule, elle se dresse. Oh! nos os sont revêtus d'un nouveau corps amoureux.

O la face cendrée, l'écusson de crin, les bras de cristal ! Le canon sur lequel je dois m'abattre à travers la mêlée des arbres et de l'air léger !

i like david trinidad's poetry quite a bit...really, most of the poetry i like is written by my friends. i have a really good friend who studied poetry and her stuff is some of the best i've ever read.

i'm not an intellect at all but i recently discovered sylvia plath and read the bio rough magic, havent seen the film yet though.
but i have to say my favourite poet is...
the frog
xx

cammille said:

cammille, you're either joking, lying or stark raving bonkers. either way,

Wilfred Owen.

Kahlil Gibran. His insights, perceptions and prophetic writings seem to capture it

all for me.

...and there are doubtless many many more we never hear of.

Maya Angelou
William Blake
Poe


I havent read that much of Sylvia Plath's poetry but The Bell Jar was very touching...Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation was pretty deep too, I know she isn't technically a poet but a lot of that book reads like poem...

Jim Morrison

When I saw the subject question the first poet that came to my mind was Sylvia Plath, but you beat me to it. I read 'The Bell Jar' last year and became really interested in her poetry. Other than Sylvia Plath, I like Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jim Morrison.

Some Finnish poets but I have been reading a Latin poet Catullus, he has so funny lampoons of the Roman times

Allan Ginsberg
Ingrid Jonker
Byron
Rimbaud
Beaudelair (I always spell his name wrong)

Elly de Waard - Just kidding

IstenSzek said:

Like I said;

Devant une neige un Etre de Beauté de haute taille. Des sifflements de mort et des cercles de musique sourde fontmonter, s'élargir et trembler comme un spectre ce corps adoré, des blessures écarlates et noires éclatent dans les chairs superbes. Les couleurs propres de la vie se foncent, dansent, et se dégagent autour de la Vision, sur le chantier. Et les frissons s'élèvent et grondent et la saveur forcenée de ces effets se chargeant avec les sifflements mortels et les rauques musiques que le monde, loin derrière nous, lance sur notre mère de beauté, - elle recule, elle se dresse. Oh! nos os sont revêtus d'un nouveau corps amoureux.

O la face cendrée, l'écusson de crin, les bras de cristal ! Le canon sur lequel je dois m'abattre à travers la mêlée des arbres et de l'air léger !

gooeythehamster said:

But since I flunked French more horribly than anything I ever flunked, I have to make do
with english translations.

I wonder what the translator machine would make of it.....

Can you describe Jack Kerouac as a poet?

Yes?

Then him too.



Readings By Jack Kerouac On The Beat Generation
Catalog #3145375742
compact disc - limited edition
reissue release date 10/28/1997
original releasing label Verve Records

gooeythehamster said:

Jack Kerouac

Sylvia plath and Dorothy Parker and C.C.Cummings and TS Eliot.

Zelaira said:

All good.



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Edgar Allan Poe

Shakespeare (sonnets)

Leonard Cohen (the man's a poet in my book-brilliant use of imagery)

Shel Silverstein

Dr. Seuss

starkitty

me


Sylvia's quite good as well. I'm sure I'm forgetting someone.

MsMisha319 said:

I've always liked Sylvia's work a lot. Eventho it's dark and depressing at places, I can't
help but feel that there's more beauty and surrender in it than in many of the works
of the more conventional "happier" poets.

Her book "The Bell Jar" is also one of my fav books.

I didn't know that there was a movie about her, so I'll have to check that out too.


Another GREAT poet is Osip Mandelshtam. B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L !!!


Another poet that comes to mind is Thomas Hardy. Altho I don't like most of his
work, there is one poem that belongs amongst my fav poems ever. It's very
short and simple but oh so beautiful:



I climbed the crest
and fog festooned
the sun lay west
like a crimson wound

like this wound of mine
of which none knew
for I'd given no sign
that it pierced me through

subhuman09 said:

He just wrote a novel. Read it?

subhuman09 said:

The Giving Tree!

IstenSzek said:

:O

Of Jess Of THe D'Urbervilles?

gooeythehamster said:

Haven't seen Leonard's novel! What's it called? I'd love to read it!

Shel's incredible! I still have all his books (have since I was a kid) and many of his more adult works. The world needs more people that think like him.



ps-Exclamation points are fun.

subhuman09 said:

As is geophysica.

gooeythehamster said:

Yup. I didn't know he wrote poetry until I stumbled across a very old bound
volume of his collected poems.

There aren't that many, perhaps 100 in total, but it's a nice collection. But
as I said, I'm not to thrilled with a lot of them.

They're about at tedious as most of his novels