tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778441.post1988420672704469448..comments2023-12-19T06:54:20.572-05:00Comments on Answer Girl: Five Favorite PoemsEllen Clair Lambhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14944288413332520719noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778441.post-74720788510145990032010-04-09T18:52:04.440-04:002010-04-09T18:52:04.440-04:00The Thought Fox - Ted Hughes
On Raglan Road - Patr...The Thought Fox - Ted Hughes<br />On Raglan Road - Patrick Kavanagh<br />Tonight I write the Saddest Lines - Pablo Neruda<br />When you are old - W.B. Yeats<br />Daddy - Sylvia Plath<br /><br />These are simply the first five that came to mind. There's loads more: Anne Sexton, Carol Duffy, Keats, Philip Larkin,Emily Dickinson...Peternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778441.post-18288592486931508752010-04-08T19:41:32.331-04:002010-04-08T19:41:32.331-04:00Thank You. I have in the past tried to introduce ...Thank You. I have in the past tried to introduce poeple to AA Milne's poems but have been not succesful. Having said that, I was given a copy of "When We Were Very Young" whenI was very young... My Grandmother read me that poem many times. I still have no idea what it true meaning isUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02948436133753856012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778441.post-13433642905713615132010-04-08T14:28:49.944-04:002010-04-08T14:28:49.944-04:00Oh I found another one I love--"The Quiet Wor...Oh I found another one I love--"<a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-quiet-world/" rel="nofollow">The Quiet World</a>", by Jeffrey McDaniel.Clairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402513189539866553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778441.post-71844474322231800432010-04-08T12:46:48.120-04:002010-04-08T12:46:48.120-04:00Where to begin...
Okay, putting aside the obvious...Where to begin...<br /><br />Okay, putting aside the obvious Shakespeare sonnets (Shall I Compare Thee, My Mistress's eyes, etc.).<br /><br />How about, "Ozymandias of Egypt" by Shelley, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by Keats, "The Flea" by Donne, "She Walks in Beauty" by Byron, "The Garden of Love" or "The Fly" by Blake, "If" by Kipling, "Sea Fever" by Masefield, "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke, "Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen?<br /><br />And they're all English, before we get to Dylan Thomas and Yeats, to Osip Mandelstam ("Leningrad") and Czeslaw Milosz ("Encounter"), to the French and the Japanese -<br /><br />Forsaking the mists<br />That rise in the spring,<br />Wild geese fly off.<br />They have learned to live<br />In a land without flowers.<br /> - Lady Ise<br /><br />It's true that most adults don't read poetry, but I hope we continue encouraging children to read the form because you carry it with you through life, even the poets you don't get as a child.Kevin Wignallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00387105790403552165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778441.post-26444334258964668512010-04-08T12:17:21.219-04:002010-04-08T12:17:21.219-04:00and Larkin's The Whitsun Weddings too.and Larkin's The Whitsun Weddings too.Yvonnehttp://howwelivenow.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778441.post-47093271570968659332010-04-08T12:15:03.047-04:002010-04-08T12:15:03.047-04:00From your Yeats:
A lonely impulse of delight
Drov...From your Yeats:<br /><br />A lonely impulse of delight<br />Drove to this tumult in the cloudsTom Ehrenfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11631646873808799064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778441.post-55294946349239257452010-04-08T11:36:23.735-04:002010-04-08T11:36:23.735-04:00Five is too few, and this list might differ slight...Five is too few, and this list might differ slightly on any given day. Here are five more:<br /><br />"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," by W.B. Yeats<br />"The Hollow Men," by T.S. Eliot<br />"somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond," by e e cummings<br />"One Art," by Elizabeth Bishop<br />and "The Mower," by Philip Larkin:<br /><br />The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found<br />A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,<br />Killed. It had been in the long grass.<br /><br />I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.<br />Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world<br />Unmendably. Burial was no help:<br /><br />Next morning I got up and it did not.<br />The first day after a death, the new absence<br />Is always the same; we should be careful<br /><br />Of each other, we should be kind<br />While there is still time.Ellen Clair Lambhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14944288413332520719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778441.post-91155553579765707092010-04-08T10:43:32.253-04:002010-04-08T10:43:32.253-04:00Robert Penn Warren's "True Love" may...Robert Penn Warren's "True Love" may be the saddest autobiography of every person who has ever lived.<br /><br />Peep this: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15313<br /><br />-- EdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778441.post-8787546751715733672010-04-08T10:28:18.715-04:002010-04-08T10:28:18.715-04:00In no particular order:
The Skunk by Seamus Heane...In no particular order:<br /><br />The Skunk by Seamus Heaney<br />Wuthering Heights by Sylvia Plath<br />The Death of a Hired Man by Robert Frost<br />Malvern Road by Michael Hofmann<br />The Idea of Order at Key West by Wallace Stevens<br /><br />Really, 5 is too few!Yvonnehttp://howwelivenow.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778441.post-44303173136105343652010-04-08T09:44:26.467-04:002010-04-08T09:44:26.467-04:00I have always liked "nobody loses all of the ...I have always liked "<a href="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/e__e__cummings/poems/14292" rel="nofollow">nobody loses all of the time</a>", because gallows humor is always funny.Clairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402513189539866553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778441.post-42145660673264333352010-04-08T09:39:27.198-04:002010-04-08T09:39:27.198-04:00HIgh Windows by Philip Larkin
A Blessing by James ...HIgh Windows by Philip Larkin<br />A Blessing by James Wright<br />Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams<br />The Annihilation of Matter by William Bronk<br />In the Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop<br />A Few Days by James Schuyler<br />The Forms of Love by Robert Creeley<br />The Cold Heaven by Yeats<br /><br /><br />Sorry, went over. I plead with others to read A Few Days by Schuyler.Tom Ehrenfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11631646873808799064noreply@blogger.com