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PrintableFunkMistress said: MarieLouise said: Mach, I want the Poe-poems back !!!
To me they're written in another language, so that shows this thread is very relative, you shouldn't care! I blame myself for making my thread-titles so confusing. From now on I'll put the whole question in the title... I promise. I so didn't see the "other language" part... 
Of course, the poems I posted were originally written in Persian!  I didn't know you were Persian.  | |
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Victor Hugo or Lorca
I prefer prose, though. Zola is my favourite author by a mile. | |
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Spookymuffin said: Victor Hugo or Lorca
I prefer prose, though. Zola is my favourite author by a mile. In my last year of secondary school, I wrote a 40 pages long dissertation about Lorca, copying most of it. The teacher seemed to have so much confidence in my Spanish writing skills, she gave me 39/40. 
Eight years later I realize I've never understood a thing about that man's work. Have you read 'Viou' (I hope that's the title), by Henri Troyat? Read that one 10 years ago, and this one I understood and enjoyed very much. 'L'amant' by Marguerite Duras I liked as well. | |
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MarieLouise said: Spookymuffin said: Victor Hugo or Lorca
I prefer prose, though. Zola is my favourite author by a mile. In my last year of secondary school, I wrote a 40 pages long dissertation about Lorca, copying most of it. The teacher seemed to have so much confidence in my Spanish writing skills, she gave me 39/40.
Eight years later I realize I've never understood a thing about that man's work. Have you read 'Viou' (I hope that's the title), by Henri Troyat? Read that one 10 years ago, and this one I understood and enjoyed very much. 'L'amant' by Marguerite Duras I liked as well. I'm afraid I haven't. I've read a lot of anonymous poems as an examination technique - if you don't know the author, you know less about the work is the idea that the school has; so I've got like 40 poems, all unnamed. | |
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Spookymuffin said: MarieLouise said: In my last year of secondary school, I wrote a 40 pages long dissertation about Lorca, copying most of it. The teacher seemed to have so much confidence in my Spanish writing skills, she gave me 39/40.
Eight years later I realize I've never understood a thing about that man's work. Have you read 'Viou' (I hope that's the title), by Henri Troyat? Read that one 10 years ago, and this one I understood and enjoyed very much. 'L'amant' by Marguerite Duras I liked as well. I'm afraid I haven't. I've read a lot of anonymous poems as an examination technique - if you don't know the author, you know less about the work is the idea that the school has; so I've got like 40 poems, all unnamed. Both are prose-work, that's why I recommend them. I was READING your post, you know. | |
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MarieLouise said: Spookymuffin said: I'm afraid I haven't. I've read a lot of anonymous poems as an examination technique - if you don't know the author, you know less about the work is the idea that the school has; so I've got like 40 poems, all unnamed. Both are prose-work, that's why I recommend them. I was READING your post, you know. Oh right, I assumed you were referring to poetry. | |
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I'm going to be totally uncreative and say Tennyson.  This one's for you. | |
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poetry never did it for me  | |
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MarieLouise said: he's the only writer
I do not condemn because of lack of form That's my response to Andrew Dice Clay's poetry. | |
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Walther von der Vogelweide.
Unter den Linden, an der Haide, wo ich mit meinem Trauten saß, da mögt ihr finden, wie wir beide die Blumen brachen und das Gras. Vor dem Wald mit süßem Schall, Tandaradei! sang im Tal die Nachtigall. 
Tandaradei! | |
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Hermann Hesse
At Night on the High Seas At night, when the sea cradles me And the pale star gleam Lies down on its broad waves, Then I free myself wholly From all activity and all the love And stand silent and breathe purely, Alone, alone cradled by the sea That lies there, cold and silent, with a thousand lights. Then I have to think of my friends And my gaze sinks into their gazes And I ask each one, silent, alone: "Are you still mine? Is my sorrow a sorrow to you, my death a death? Do you feel from my love, my grief, Just a breath, just an echo?" And the sea peacefully gazes back, silent, And smiles: no. And no greeting and no answer comes from anywhere. -- On A Journey Don't be downcast, soon the night will come, When we can see the cool moon laughing in secret Over the faint countryside, And we rest, hand in hand. Don't be downcast, the time will soon come When we can have rest. Our small crosses will stand On the bright edge of the road together, And rain fall, and snow fall, And the winds come and go. | |
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NAnomaly said: Nikki Giovanni
When I Die when i die i hope no one who ever hurt me cries and if they cry i hope their eyes fall out and a million maggots that had made up their brains crawl from the empty holes and devour the flesh that covered the evil that passed itself off as a person that i probably tried to love Marvelous poem. | |
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I like Rilke.
Rimbaud is interesting. | |
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whitman | |
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Anyway, in English Yeats is far and away the greatest poet who ever wrote (including Eliot, that stuffed-shirt Bliss Carman wannabe). | |
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MODERN POET: SAUL WILLIAMS Said the Shotgun to the Head is a Masterpiece
CLASSIC POET: WILLIAM BLAKE - The Tyger is brilliant! Carpenters bend wood, fletchers bend arrows, wise men fashion themselves.
Don't Talk About It, Be About It! | |
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Spats said: I am not into Poetry at all.
That was a foregone conclusion. The best poets tend to be sensitive, perceptive, unique individuals, who write with a cadence and rhythm that is impossible to imagine when it all comes together. Are you willing to try? Whitman is a good start. [Edited 11/15/06 21:35pm] | |
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Dr. Seuss because it's easy to understand, followed by Keats. (Ode On A Grecian Urn...Ode to_____ fill in the blank) Anything by Keats. | |
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Mach said: luv4all7 said:  Whats goin' on with Mach?????i made boo boos  Join the club. | |
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Spookymuffin said: Victor Hugo or Lorca
I prefer prose, though. Zola is my favourite author by a mile. I didn't realize you were so deep. Should've known. [Edited 11/15/06 21:02pm] | |
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sonia sanchez
gwendolyn brooks | |
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Spookymuffin said: MarieLouise said: In my last year of secondary school, I wrote a 40 pages long dissertation about Lorca, copying most of it. The teacher seemed to have so much confidence in my Spanish writing skills, she gave me 39/40.
Eight years later I realize I've never understood a thing about that man's work. Have you read 'Viou' (I hope that's the title), by Henri Troyat? Read that one 10 years ago, and this one I understood and enjoyed very much. 'L'amant' by Marguerite Duras I liked as well. I'm afraid I haven't. I've read a lot of anonymous poems as an examination technique - if you don't know the author, you know less about the work is the idea that the school has; so I've got like 40 poems, all unnamed. Spooky, you'd better appreciate the quality education you're getting. Are you attending one of the colleges with all the old buildings? Like a compound..... | |
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e.e cummings
federico garcia lorca arthur rimbaud oscar wilde liliam jimenez slyvia plath W.B. Butler John Keats Emily Dickinson rozz williams Allen Ginsberg Robert Frost maya angelou(mispell) Emily Bronte! alot more....i love poetry i've been reading it since the 6th grade. besides bio's annd some fiction..poetry fills most of my book shelve. | |
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purplerein said: I believe the question should be "who is your favorite poet"...
Pable Naruda I have to mention this because it's so embarrassing...when I was naive, newly married..had a required dinner party to attend. Bunch of English Professors from the U. Sat across an eleventy something female professor who smoked, haircut with bangs (the Uma Thurman hair in the Quentin Tarrrentio movie) Every word out of my mouth was CORRECTED. Like I was in a classroom. I was so humiliated. I pretty much shut up. If that happened today....I'd quietly get up, excuse myself and find other company. For that reason, (my pronunciations have improved significantly and I don't attempt words if I'm not sure how to pronounce them) I don't correct anyone with how they talk or spell. Plus, the hag was rude. AND since life has changed since the dinner party..in cyber space....it's a good way to learn without being at a table full of people. Education is good no matter how you get it. I restrain myself from the misspellings I see. I do think they need to be corrected.... not by myself. And it is done in a nice manner, which I appreciate. (I happened to be the only one at the table who knew the author of a book they were racking their brains to figure out) [Edited 11/15/06 21:41pm] [Edited 11/15/06 21:44pm] [Edited 11/15/06 21:45pm] [Edited 11/15/06 21:55pm] | |
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CortestheKiller said: I'm going to be totally uncreative and say Tennyson.
Great response. | |
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I also think William Blake is a great genius. Someone more than just a poet, though, a great thinker. My Legacy
http://prince.org/msg/8/192731 | |
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MarieLouise said: FunkMistress said: The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that I was Lovers don't finally meet somewhere They're in each other all along. -Rumi From which country is this poet? I really like the idea, but to me it sounds a bit too 'obvious', if you know what I mean. I've read this a thousand times, it seems. :shrugs: It's simple but it rings very true to me. The Normal Whores Club | |
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xplnyrslf said: purplerein said: I believe the question should be "who is your favorite poet"...
Pable Naruda I have to mention this because it's so embarrassing...when I was naive, newly married..had a required dinner party to attend. Bunch of English Professors from the U. Sat across an eleventy something female professor who smoked, haircut with bangs (the Uma Thurman hair in the Quentin Tarrrentio movie) Every word out of my mouth was CORRECTED. Like I was in a classroom. I was so humiliated. I pretty much shut up. If that happened today....I'd quietly get up, excuse myself and find other company. For that reason, (my pronunciations have improved significantly and I don't attempt words if I'm not sure how to pronounce them) I don't correct anyone with how they talk or spell. Plus, the hag was rude. AND since life has changed since the dinner party..in cyber space....it's a good way to learn without being at a table full of people. Education is good no matter how you get it. I restrain myself from the misspellings I see. I do think they need to be corrected.... not by myself. And it is done in a nice manner, which I appreciate. (I happened to be the only one at the table who knew the author of a book they were racking their brains to figure out) [Edited 11/15/06 21:41pm] [Edited 11/15/06 21:44pm] [Edited 11/15/06 21:45pm] [Edited 11/15/06 21:55pm] I've read this post two times and I still don't understand what you want to point out. That it's a bad thing to correct each other? Please explain yourself. | |
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