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eowyn1025
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mine:
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-Shakespeare
-Dickinson
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moxy
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edgar poe
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diarmid
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Percy Byshe Shelley (Ozymandius)
Tolkien
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Song of Hiawatha)
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beyond_gravity
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Paul Simon
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Aug 7, 2002, 4:14 PM
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Ginsberg
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Shel Silverstein (A light in the attic?? J/K.)
Walt Whitman
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indiesummit
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Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg
Gary Snyder
W.B. Yeats
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Basho (Japanese haiku rock!)
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ponyryan
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Hey, I like Shel Silverstein. Paul Simon's a good one too .
I also like the work of ravens_wing_jim on this site, very cool stuff!
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diarmid
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"angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night"
I had forgotten about that one!
Can you name this poet?
"All watched over by machines of loving grace"
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biggernhell
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Neruda
Shelly
Whitman
Ginsberg (America)
I love Hemingway but DO NOT read his poetry
"I do not think I have ever trod
on anything so swell as sod."
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shel silverstein, edgar allen poe, shakespear-quite the combo, comedy, fear/hate/death, love
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eowyn1025
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Shel Silverstein....i'm ashamed to admit i forgot her...she's awesome!
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Sarah Silvia Synthia Stout(who would not take the garbage out)
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Dodgson
'Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogroves,
and the momes wrath outgrabe.
Beware the Jabberwok my son!
With teeth that bite, and claws that catch.
Beware the Jub Jub bird, and shun
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Lewis Carrol
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ME!!!
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now here's a topic for me as I'm still struggling with a masters in english literature.
diarmid, that poet is probably Ginsberg and the quote probably from the owl though my pothead memory sometimes plays tricks on me.
As for a favorite I would have to go for that most brilliant north Carolina writer Thomas Wolfe. And those of you who would say he wrote mostly novels have obviously never read these novels as they are mostly very extensive poems.
A stone, a leaf, a door.
Steve
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emily
Aug 7, 2002, 11:59 PM
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I like shakespear...i dont read much poetry i kinda wish i did...someday i will...lol
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I like Uncle Shelby. - Shel Silverstein's crude alter ego. Anyone ever read "Gimmesome Roy?" Hillarious!
Here' tis:
http://www.banned-width.com/shel/works/high.html
On a more serious note: I like Yeats and Tennyson a lot, but haven't really read them for years.
-Chris
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Homer Simpson
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Aug 8, 2002, 1:20 AM
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ok...i'm going to get a little more specific..all of you should read Tennyson's Enoch Arden. Enoch is the most noble character you will ever read about. secondly, Shakespeare's Henry V. If you don't like reading, i'd recommend watching the Kenneth Branaugh version of Henry V. it's awesome!
"...We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. for he who fights with me this day shall be my brother...be he nare so vile, this day shall gentle his condition.." (hope i got it right...)
Hey Wonder1978....good choice in a masters..if i wasn't an art major, i'd be an english major.
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Aug 8, 2002, 1:51 AM
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Billy Collins
Charles Bukowski
Pablo Neruda
Vladimir Esenin
Anna Akhmatova
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Aug 8, 2002, 2:13 AM
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ditto to the above with the addition of William Carlos Williams
Sylvia Plath
Anne Sexton
and Philip Levine
ben
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Aug 8, 2002, 2:21 AM
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Diarmid:
Howl
By Allen Ginsberg
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to thestarry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water fiats 'doating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,
who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated,
who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war,
who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull,
who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall,
who got busted in their pubic beards returning through Laredo with a belt of marijuana for New York....
In highschool I had to memorize a poem and present it to the class. My teacher stopped me right about there.
*EDIT: messed up an html tag
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