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Who is your favorite poet and why?
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Hmmmmmm I love Maya Angelou, her works really touch me. Sylvia Plath is also a favorite. Her things are a little darker in nature at times. I just found a book of her journals. Now I know why some of poetry is the way it is. I also like the classics like Robert Frost, Edgar Alan Poe.
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Hello Jordan from new Short Stories editor,Siobhain.
Poetry is one of my other addictions! The Longfellow article will make me look at my hymnal in a new light! It had never occured to me before that some hymns we know and love may have been 'censored' - is this fact pointed out to the potential singers ? Not like nowadays when copyright etc is taken so seriously!
Makes you think!
PS - some of my favourite poets are the nature poets and Hopkins, Yeats, Wordsworth prelude, and- contrasting interestingly with DV editor - Ted Hughes!!
Do pop in and see me on my Forum too, both, Id love to see you!
Siobhain
Last edited by inspirangel one; 11/29/07 08:04 AM.
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This is terrible, but I still love Robert Frost. I guess I was ruined in middle school.
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Hi Jordan (and all here)
Just wanted to say I loved your Burns Supper article! (But then I am a big fan of his and all nature poets - Charity, in fact I am reading Robert Frost Bio this weekend as I am tutoring on his poetry at the moment!)
The Burns supper background was fascinating.
Here in England, particularly in London, Storytelling is being added to the repertoire for the evening too! I am ordering the latest book about Burns - sigh..... I wonder if I'll ever get time to read any of it. I can only justify reading time for authors I am actually tutoring!
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I really W.B. Yeats because his poetry is so very magical. I've even set some to music.
Though I have to admit, though I love poetry, and I love to write poetry, I don't know much about modern poets.
I've read a couple by Ralph Waldo Emerson that I really liked too!
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I'm a huge Elizabeth Bishop fan. I also love Lucia Perillo.
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My favorite poet is Adelaide Crapsey. You can read her complete works online here in about 30 minutes.  *
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I love Robert Frost, I have several of his poems memorized. I live in New England so the imagery is very powerful for me.
I'll have to track down some of the others mentioned here!
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Whenever I think of Robert Frost I think of the Outsiders:
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
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