Who is the best poet and why?
>>8263566
fuckin Yeats or someone i guess
>>8263574
Yeats is good, why do you like him?
Homer.
Milton.
Shakespeare.
Pound.
Eliot.
Yeats.
>>8263583
I love Pound so much
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Frost
>>8263595
Eat shit
>>8263566
>Who is the best poet
Seanchán Torpéist.
> and why?
He could kill rats and curse kings with his words, led a troupe of 3 fifties of poets and conversed with the ghost of poetry himself on the finer nature of the craft.
>>8263566
Early Pound is amazing. Im not well educated enough to have any idea what's up with the Cantos
Ginsberg, Whitman. Their energy is good
Just.
I like Byron
>>8263578
the usual reasons. Master of form and meter, great imagination, a good bridge between premodernism and modernism.
he was kinda crazy tho.
>>8263566
In the words of Pound himself "Dante is the only poet."
Or maybe that was Beckett.
Whats with the Pound meme? Is it because being a fascist is in this year?
>>8264323
It's the edgiest dankest meme right now.
>>8264318
Fuck Dante.
>>8263584
What should I read by him?
>>8264323
Despite his stupid politics and half the cantos being over-written schlep he is still one of the greatest poets just from sheer ability.
>>8263583
>Pound.
>Eliot.
Wallace stevens or Hölderlin
>>8264341
He's just a good critic
>>8264345
+1 Hölderlin. Also Rilke because he wrote " Orpheus.Eurydice.Hermes"
>>8264330
>Fuck Dante.
Stop reading. You are shit at it.
Whitman
Shakespeare
Dan Schneider
>>8264371
My aim is to reinvent reading.
>>8264382
what a shitty ambition
>>8264356
Not even good
>>8264385
You're not a poet.
I love William Carlos Williams
>>8263566
Homer is the safe answer. A beauty so pure and innocent, yet so deep and vast.
>>8264323
I don't know. I've never been able to find an epub of his Cantos.
this is a bad thread for multiple reasons
dickinson and stevens
César Vallejo
Pessoa is one of the greatest poets of all time dudes and dudettes.
Why are all poets atheists?
>>8265639
Because there are so many gods, you can only believe in a few
Having been tenant long to a rich lord,
Not thriving, I resolvèd to be bold,
And make a suit unto him, to afford
A new small-rented lease, and cancel th’ old.
In heaven at his manor I him sought;
They told me there that he was lately gone
About some land, which he had dearly bought
Long since on earth, to take possessiòn.
I straight returned, and knowing his great birth,
Sought him accordingly in great resorts;
In cities, theaters, gardens, parks, and courts;
At length I heard a ragged noise and mirth
Of thieves and murderers; there I him espied,
Who straight, Your suit is granted, said, and died.
>>8265652
+420 cringe points
>>8264854
http://www90.zippyshare.com/v/Kq2NRdmY/file.html
>>8263566
Aesop Rock aka Aes aka Ian Matthias Bavitz
Music for Earthworms and Float are lyrical masterpieces that display a mastery of the English language and hip-hop desu
I think all poets are atheists because they haven't surrendered a part of their minds to an all-knowing being.
They are forced to, by nature of the responsibility of being poets, to pick up all of their ideas, wherever they came from, and elucidate them.
Gertrude Stein, obv.
In English?
Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, arguably John Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope, arguably Blake, Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Tennyson, arguably Walt Whitman though he's not my favourite, arguably Swinburne.
After that, I think it's too soon to tell. Maybe we can allow Yeats a spot on the list, though not a prominent one. Certainly not Pound. Eliot is more of a minor poet.
>>8266730
I should have left out Swinburne and included Byron; other than that I am willing to answer for my selections and omissions.
>>8264323
He writes beautifully, I don't give a shit about politics one way or the other.
Why is it a competition?
Poets are not petty swine like thee.
>>8266781
"not giving a shit" is one way
>>8263566
Why even try.
>>8266826
Sorry you feel that way, I guess.
Seriously, what do readers see in Dante nowadays?
>>8266730
Would be interesting in reading your motivations behind those choices, though that is quite a lot to ask.
>>8266840
Mystical poetry is overrated. Sa'di is better.
My favorites:
Neruda
Transtromer
Li Po
>come at me bro
>>8265607
my nigga
>>8263566
>>8264820
I read his imaginations for class last semester. I was pleasantly surprised.
>>8264820
>Being too much of a pussy to go by William Williams
>>8267993
Bill Williams
a real american guy's guy
Might as well include Elizabeth Bishop, since I know no one else will.
>>8268049
Why wouldn't anyone else include her? I think she's decent, although at times a bit too facile for my taste (but then that goes for most poets working in the latter half of the 20th century).
>>8263951
More like homo haha
But yeah this
>>8265639
Are they?
>>8268096
Very few poets are on the /lit/ charts, they aren't as meme-friendly.
