xTrishaxLynnx Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Oooh. I love this thread. Here are just a few of my favorites: [url="http://allpoetry.com/poem/8473301-Crossing_the_Bar-by-Alfred_Lord_Tennyson"]Crossing the Bar[/url] ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson [url="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175220"]The Garden of Love [/url]~ William Blake [url="http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html"]Dulce Et Decorum Est [/url]~ Wilfred Owen More to come soon... have to do some searching through my essays and journal reflections for the names and authors... I can never keep them all straight. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKolbe Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Jungle Love - Morris Day and The Time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xTrishaxLynnx Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Also: [url="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175758"]Those Winter Sundays[/url] ~ Robert Hayden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Era Might Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Jimmy Santiago Baca - Immigrants In Our Own Land (it's a book of poetry he wrote while in prison as a young man) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 (edited) To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvell she being brand new, ee cummings Edited August 28, 2012 by Winchester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyAnn Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 I love Sylvia Plath and Edgar Allan Poe. They're both kind of dark, but amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archaeology cat Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Coleridge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaime Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 I would recommend anything(everything) by TS Eliot. Just don't start with the Wasteland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 I remember spending about a week in the summer between grade eleven and twelve analyzing Prufrock. Probably that was the best English essay I'd ever written, at least up until that point. Pretty epic. Poetry isn't exactly my preferred type of media to digest or analyze, but the good ones definitely deserve a lot of attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 [quote name='jaime' timestamp='1346188066' post='2475410'] I would recommend anything(everything) by TS Eliot. Just don't start with the Wasteland. [/quote] I have a couple of papers printed out to help me interpret that thing. But even when you don't know what's going on, it's badass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not The Philosopher Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Get some Rennaisance guys in there: John Donne, Sir Phillip Sydney, Edmund Spenser, and, of course, the Bard. I also second (or third) Coleridge and Eliot. Also Dante. Of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 [quote name='Not The Philosopher' timestamp='1346192437' post='2475444'] Get some Rennaisance guys in there: John Donne, Sir Phillip Sydney, Edmund Spenser, and, of course, the Bard. I also second (or third) Coleridge and Eliot. Also Dante. Of course. [/quote] Shoot, that reminds me of a great one I read last year... Will update when I find the author. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 a great place to find out new authors or classics is to subscribe to [url="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/"]The Writer's Almanac[/url]. They put up one poem per day, sometimes long, sometimes short. But I've found a lot of interesting authors/poets that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groo the Wanderer Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 The once and future king Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlesister Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 Padraic Pearse and Sr. Mary Francis PCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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