oh!!!!! my favorite poem is gerard manley hopkins too!!! id never heard yours before so thank you!! Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins and some other favorites (a lot of these are normie ass choices but shhhh): Spoiler: I accidentally a fuckton Escape at Bedtime by Robert Louis Stevenson (from a child’s garden of verses, the first poem I ever loved) Pi by Wislawa Szymborska (this may be my most favorite, out of all these) Hymn to Breaking Strain by Rudyard Kipling (yes I know I know, but word taste good) anyone lived in a pretty how town by e.e. cummings (chosen for sound more than anything else. it just tastes good) The Heaven of Animals by James L. Dickey (I think about this a lot) Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson (guess who was 12 and emo?) Precious Stones by Christina Rossetti (this is basically an aphorism in poem form but it’s good ok) For I will consider my Cat Jeoffrey by Christopher Smart (fragment of a very long, very weird poem called Rejoice in the Lamb)(Christian writers did a lot of good words okay) The Tyger by William Blake (probably the most normie choice, everyone knows this one) The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes (also pretty normie but look) Howl by Alan Ginsberg (guess who was 17 and emo?) The Robert Fagles translation of the Odyssey and Spoiler: screenshot
it might be a bit stereotypical but i do absolutely adore stopping by woods on a snowy evening by robert frost Spoiler Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. "the woods are lovely, dark and deep" is such a good line, i love it.
hghgfhhff now I’m thinking abt poetry again. I keep trying to remember poems where I don’t even have a whole line, or fragment of a line, to look for; just a word, a theme, a feeling anyway I had too many happy poems in my previous post here are some depressing ones The Graubelle Man by Seamus Heaney Church Going by Philip Larkin War is Kind by Stephen Crane
Oh my gosh I love that one. Plath is fantastic. And villanelles are such a fun poetic format! (Incidentally, here is a song about villanelles, written in the form of an actual villanelle. You're welcome. (i figure it counts as relevant at least?)) One of my favorites, for reasons I cannot explain, is Memories Of West Street And Lepke by Robert Lowell. It's just...evocative in ways I can't actually describe? Howl's a favorite for similar reasons--they're not terribly similar poems I wouldn't say, but they give me similar Vibes (TM), if that makes any sense whatsoever. I'm also really fond of another Plath poem, Lady Lazarus. That last stanza...chills, every time. And of course, Shel Silverstein is a genius. I cut my teeth on his children's poetry, but one of my favorites is the decidedly not-kid-friendly The Perfect High, which I learned from my dad as a teenager--he used to read it for dramatic interp in college, and I swear I need to record him reciting it at some point because he has it memorized word-for-word and does it so well.
LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR! rumi also v good. like the yeats too. and plath. will copy other favourite poem from poem book at home if remember, is called the heliotrope i think and can't remember author eta: forgot to mention edgar allan poe (my bro, my homie) but just as like. a blanket statement. love him.
BIG SAME. I cannot believe I forgot to mention him as one of my faves, although I'm more familiar with his short stories I'd say (love 'em--I once read The Telltale Heart before bed when I was 12 or so and was vaguely amazed that I didn't have nightmares) so that might be why? The Raven remains one of the best poems ever though. EDIT: Seconding Ozymandias as well! What a good one.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57286/the-ocean also a good, just found it quoted in a creepypasta and I'm love it
So this place here's got texts from the Isle of Man. Most of it really old by the looks of it which makes sense. Lots of poetry though. Gonna be reading through it soon.
i have...so many... Anne Carson's transformative translation of Sappho fragments If Not, Winter is a fuckin revelation every time i read it in general, my favorite type of poem is 'this had made me a soft kind of sad and i don't know why' this is a perennial fav: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/long-sad-party
also i read john donne's holy sonnets in high school english class and absolutely hated them, but this incredible tweet has totally redeemed them for me: https://twitter.com/jiatolentino/status/920355993791467522
I'm really fond of Erika L. Sánchez's work. In particular I really, really love Portrait of a Wetback. Linking it because it has formatting shit I can't do. There's also a poem in Juárez that I really like...This one... No ocean to drown: wet concrete, sand, locusts. An ethereal hand fingering dust. A hunger, a name, an agreement.
mmm just remembered im basic bitch tier and that it makes me so happy when my spanish-speaking SO reads lorca poems to me
I'm not big on poetry but here's a couple that I've always liked o_ob Sea Canes by Derek Walcott (probably my most favorite if I had to pick) Dark August also by Derek Walcott Also Song of Myself is...a marathon... but I like a few bits on it and the last couple of stanzas really get me :')
Audio link: Peter Capaldi reads The Magic Wood by Henry Treece, preceded by some words from Neil Gaiman.
