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Poetry
Oct 3, 2005 10:33:50 GMT 10
Post by Beck on Oct 3, 2005 10:33:50 GMT 10
Does anyone have a favourite (s) poem (s)? Or a favourite poet? Care to share?
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Poetry
Oct 3, 2005 10:38:12 GMT 10
Post by Bre on Oct 3, 2005 10:38:12 GMT 10
Wash was a pretty good poet: Here lies my beloved Zoe, my autumn flower. Somewhat less attractive now that she's all corpsified and gross... lol. Now he's someone who I'd like to speak at my funeral. Okay, back to reality. I honestly don't read to much poetry, but if you think of The Odyssey as poetry (Epic poetry), then Homer is definitely a favorite of mine.
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Mar 10, 2006 22:07:04 GMT 10
Post by secret on Mar 10, 2006 22:07:04 GMT 10
I like Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage... they've written some pretty deep stuff. Mostly, the poems I read, I like, because I develop my own interpretations for them.. and then they sort of become very personal to me. That's why I love Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy's work.
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Mar 10, 2006 23:49:20 GMT 10
Post by buffymanic on Mar 10, 2006 23:49:20 GMT 10
ah I remember them well........GCSE English what fun! I liked a couple of theirs but not much
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Mar 11, 2006 8:18:15 GMT 10
Post by Bre on Mar 11, 2006 8:18:15 GMT 10
One of my more recent favorites that I've been reading lately is Edgar Allen Poe. "The Raven", even though the most well know, it's still my favorite. Good stuff.
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Mar 16, 2006 23:57:24 GMT 10
Post by secret on Mar 16, 2006 23:57:24 GMT 10
It is GCSE English stuff, but it's deep and I like it. I'm even taking a liking to Shakespeare, lol! We have a very passionate English teacher.
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Mar 19, 2006 1:43:56 GMT 10
Post by infectus on Mar 19, 2006 1:43:56 GMT 10
Heres one of my own, its one of the crapper ones a wrote a while i go but its the only one i remember. *Mazes* Lost in the mazes of my mind. Basking shadow of confusion. A wanderer through time. Instinct fails me. Misdirection consumes me. By the mazes grown i recoil. Tainted by unwillingness. Praying for nothingness to exhaust.
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Mar 19, 2006 1:53:38 GMT 10
Post by Glenn on Mar 19, 2006 1:53:38 GMT 10
I had a poem published when i was 14, i shall try and find the book it is in and post it here. It is quite poor but i was young, i have much better ones littering my bedroom
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Mar 19, 2006 9:51:41 GMT 10
Post by Bre on Mar 19, 2006 9:51:41 GMT 10
It was published? That's pretty sweet.
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Apr 6, 2006 1:46:15 GMT 10
Post by secret on Apr 6, 2006 1:46:15 GMT 10
I also had a poem published when I was like... 14 or 13. But it was published in this THICK THICK book 'the children's anthology...?' with dozens of other winning entries in it. Our school entered us into this competition and three people from my school (including me) got their poems published.
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Nov 15, 2006 3:26:28 GMT 10
Post by Countess Dracula on Nov 15, 2006 3:26:28 GMT 10
my favorite poem is a classic ..... the raven~ Poe
i wrote my own version of this poem. its looooong though. maybe i will post it. its about something horrible that happened to me when i was younger. really heavy stuff so i may not post it.
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Feb 18, 2007 3:58:33 GMT 10
Post by Laura on Feb 18, 2007 3:58:33 GMT 10
I loved a poem by old composition teacher wrote. It was called something along the lines of, "Walking With You" and it had to do with two people walking through a concentration camp.
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Poetry
Feb 18, 2007 12:27:29 GMT 10
Post by Alissa on Feb 18, 2007 12:27:29 GMT 10
I don't really have a favorite poem... but I really like Homer, Shakespeare, and some of Emily Dickinson. The only poem I can think of off the top of my head that I really liked was "My Life Had Stood- A Loaded Gun." Mostly I like this poem because of the last stanza: "Though I than He - may longer live He longer must - than I - For I have but the power to kill, Without--the power to die--" My lit teacher brought it to our attention that Emily Dickinson left out a lot of words in her poems, and that in the last line she may have omitted the word "him" between "without" and "the". Therefore, this stanza can be interpreted as meaning that her lover has to live longer than she does for her happiness, sanity, etc. and that she has only the power to kill(as she is the loaded gun in this poem) and without him she only has the power to die. Which now that I type this I realize it seems that she's some weak lovestruck school girl, but I'm a hopeless romantic, and a sucker for things like this. Plus, I really like ambiguity.
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Mar 27, 2007 11:50:52 GMT 10
Post by Amber on Mar 27, 2007 11:50:52 GMT 10
One of my favourite poems is "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. I've loved it since I heard it. It's a poem that's quite well known.
25/50
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Apr 1, 2007 13:27:26 GMT 10
Post by Alissa on Apr 1, 2007 13:27:26 GMT 10
That is a good one, Amber. I like "Mending Walls" by Robert Frost. We read it in lit and I thought it was well written. I also kinda like "Out, Out--" by Robert Frost, but it's quite morbid.
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Apr 11, 2007 23:30:59 GMT 10
Post by Countess Dracula on Apr 11, 2007 23:30:59 GMT 10
Morbid poems are my favorite kind! That's the kind I write. It's weird because I hardly read but I write like a maniac. I will try and find my latest one and post it. You guys have to tell me what you think, and be honest!
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Apr 21, 2007 7:26:53 GMT 10
Post by Alissa on Apr 21, 2007 7:26:53 GMT 10
Post one up, Nikki, and we shalt. We just read a poem called "Drinking from a Helmet" by James Dickey yesterday in lit. My eyes filled up with tears, and it just gave me that sinking feeling in my heart when I just feel so sad. It is an amazing poem about a soldier in World War II, I believe. I can't even describe it. It was just so moving. 2/5
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Jun 4, 2007 11:50:36 GMT 10
Post by Laura on Jun 4, 2007 11:50:36 GMT 10
Have any of you ever heard any slam poets? We heard one at my school (Gayle Danley), and she was amazing. She read this one poem called "Two Pearls"...it was so touching. I think it made every girl cry .
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Jun 4, 2007 12:52:05 GMT 10
Post by Mooshi on Jun 4, 2007 12:52:05 GMT 10
I'm really not sure which poem is my favorite. This is a part from Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' that i really like a lot. The reason i like it so much is because of the imagery and how there are so many ways you can interpret it.
The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yaws over the roofs of the world.
The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.
I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood.
Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.
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Jul 11, 2007 13:51:38 GMT 10
Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2007 13:51:38 GMT 10
Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Pushkin are favorites of mine. And there's an Hispanic poet I really like but I can't think of his name right now.
"Oh Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman and "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae are special favorites.
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