Who's your favorite poet, and why?
I'm a pleb who's just getting into poetry but so far pic related would be mine.
Have you read Homer yet?
>>7970877
Bump
>>7970877
Anne Carson. Experimental, thought-provoking, emotionally intense. She has full control over her work and over literary and philosophical ideas/theories. I would say that her playfulness and control rival that of Borges'. In my opinion, her poetry is superior to Borges', and I am a huge Borges fan.
She also has a lovely way of letting certain concepts and ideas recur throughout a single work.
>>7970877
Charles Baudelaire, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Homero Manzi, Cesar Vallejo, Jose de Espronceda, Fernando Pessoa
>>7972199
I just like their poetry.
>>7970877
Did you read it in Italian?
>>7972236
Si. Come stai?
Đura Daničić and Ivan Goran Kovačić
>>7970877
Mira gonzalez
I dunno why but my favourite poem is Catullus 51. I wouldn't even call Catullus my favourite poet, or even favourite Latin poet, I just really like Catullus 51.
Also Horace Ode 4.15.
Probably Keats. I find his poetry stunningly gorgeous and after having read his letters, I find him an immensely interesting person. Would recommend reading both his poems and letters.
>>7972880
Fuck off, Swanfucker
In English, Shelley. He has an astonishing poetic sensibility.
I would say Dante or Homer but I haven't read them in their own words, unfortunately.
Either Whitman or Frost
>>7972884
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
Outside of the Greeks- Yeats, Eliot, Kipling, Cavafy, Blake, Shelley, Dylan Thomas, Crane, Auden, and Baudelaire.
>>7971008
what's your favourite poem by her?
>>7972880
He would have become the greatest poet of all time if he had lived at least ten years longer
>>7972937
Cavafy is fuckin Greek
>>7973001
Agreed, would have been better than Shakespeare.
Shelley wanted to teach him Greek...fuck, can you imagine?
>>7972419
Is Russell Crowe really that good tho?
>>7972907
Saying Robert Frost is your favorite poet is like saying Ansel Adams is your favorite photographer.
>>7972907
Saying Robert Frost is your favorite poet is like saying Frank Lloyd Wright is favorite architect.
>>7973012
Donne was already better than Shakespeare.
>>7972907
Saying Robert Frost is like saying Noam Chomsky is your favorite linguist.
>>7973034
Only a pseud would ever make such a ridiculous statement.
>>7972907
Saying Robert Frost is your favorite poet is like saying Michael Jordan is your favorite basketball player.
>>7972907
Saying Robert Frost is favorite poet is like saying Sigmund Freud is your favorite psychologist.
>>7972907
Saying Robert Frost is your favorite poet is like saying Robert Frost is your favorite poet.
I like J. Alfred Prufrock because he wrote that Love Song poem. Not too much else, though.
>>7973042
I never said that.
>>7970877
Are you reading Inferno?
It's really a hard-to-read book, I had trouble just getting through first few pages
>>7973008
I meant the Ancient Greeks. I suppose I should have been clearer though. Thanks for lookin' out, family.
Milton
Herbert
Southwell
I just really like 16-17th century religious allegorical poetry.
Saying Rober Frost is your favourite poet is like saying you enjoy the poetry of Robet Frost.
I'll get called a pleb for this, but I like Bukowski's non-/r9k/ stuff.
>>7973012
His latin was apparently very good. He actually translated the Aeneid.
>>7973635
He definitely learnt Latin and translated the Aeneid, but that was standard for every educated literary man at the turn of the 19th century.
>>7970877
That's not a pleb choice OP, well done. Most of /lit/ just looks for the most obscure person they can find, reads them for a bit, and says that's their favorite.
>>7973161
Did you know the Bushes are related to George Herbert? Imagine that.
>>7973039
Could I get a brief summary of the analogy on Chomsky here?
>>7970877
I guess the first three that come to my head are Whitman, Milton, and Eliot.
I love both intense, focused academic poetry and casual, breezy beat poetry, so my list is a little plebby
William Blake
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dante
Allen Ginsberg
Frank OHara
Walt Whitman (honestly I have no idea whether I love him or think hes mediocre, but ive had a history with him)
Arthur Rimbaud
Francisco Garcia Lorca
Pablo Neruda
Lawrence Ferlenghetti
>>7972705
second
mexican girls are attractive
>>7973770
oh and Yeats
and maaaaaaybe Dylan Thomas
>>7970877
My two favorites
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
>>7973062
Underrated
Sexton
C. Rossetti
Swinburne
In that order.
Shakespeare and Poe for most cases. Dante is the shit, though, and I also had a blast reading Chaucer, especially the Knight's Tale.
You also can't go wrong with Percy Shelley.
>>7972940
No idea, but I know that Autobiography of Red is a good starting point.
>>7970877
My favorite poet is probably Brecht.
>>7974548
based
>>7970877
Rudyard Kipling. Just for "If" though.
>>7970877
One of the best is Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, amazing
Ozymandias, amazing
Everyone should take the time to read Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
>>7974700
I once worked in a government call center and we had a really racist guy who would call in to complain about policies and immigrants and then he would start beautifully reciting Kipling poems. It was honestly worth getting blasted by his screaming about niggers and kikes because his thick northern England accent was just perfect somehow.
>>7974700
top pleb son
Whitman, closely followed by Blake.
Brooklyn Ferry and The Sick Rose are my favourite poems.
>>7974713
Come on m8, it's the height of boy scout literature.
>>7974734
Do you find Blake hollow at all, for lack of a better word? Aesthetically stunning but without substance, perhaps because his chosen topics were often nebulous to begin with. I haven't read him since I was a teenager so perhaps it's time to go back.
Chaucer
Dante
Modern poetry is quite unreadable usually.
>>7973161
I had no idea. But I did know that George Herbert has a distant Polish relative, who is also a poet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Herbert
>>7973740
the fuck? source? thats hilarious
Probably Whitman. What's the general opinion of him on this site?
EZRA POUND
>>7975617
Idk what the "general" opinion is, but Whitman is my favorite American poet, BY FAR. He's the closest thing America has ever had to matching Shakespeare.
>>7972880
This guy gets it. Keats is so beautiful and tender without being flamboyant or saccharine. His poems are those to meditate on.
