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[PurpleVixen]

I know a lot of people hate poetry but I am a total English nerd and I am looking for good poetry to read. My favourite poem is The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot, what are you some of your favourites?

[007imagine]

"Vergissmeinnicht" by Keith Douglas. I don't really like poetry, but I really enjoyed this.

[Andi T :)]

In my class, we studied 2 poems I really liked, "Musee de Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden and Vernon Scannell's "Another View of Thanatos"

[marauder7]

maybe Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
I appreciate how hard to write poetry is, although I hate hate hate analysing poems

[3.46q2]

daddy - sylvia plath

[hayleec]

'October Dawn' by Ted Hughes, or 'Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost.

[maverick410]

Green Eggs and Ham-Dr Seuss

[funny10sport]

If You Forget Me  by Pablo Neruda.
One of the best poems in my opinion. And easy to analyse

Fore more sophisticated works, there is always shakespearean sonnets. Can't get enough of Shakespeare lol

[Gabrielle Olivia]

One of the first poems we studied that I really liked writing about was Fable by Janos Pilinszky. Also, we did an entire unit on Sylvia Plath and I wrote an essay about her poem "Elm". That was fun as well.
And don't worry, I'm an english nerd too!

[vira.may]

 hayleec, on Feb 17, 2012 - 03:51, said:

'October Dawn' by Ted Hughes, or 'Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost.

Agreed.

[vandalism]

I've always been a sucker for Thomas E. Spencer. E. A. Poe, despite being more of a prose writer, is also pretty rad.
Recently I came across a past paper with a poem that really moved me. I Go Back to May 1937 by Sharon Olds. Awesome piece.

English nerds, unite! c:

Edited by vandalism, Mar 04, 2012 - 05:18.

[chahat721]

Marrysong by Dennis Scott and Caged Bird by Maya Angelo

[Victorious]

PurpleVixen, on Jan 25, 2012 - 01:22, said:

I know a lot of people hate poetry but I am a total English nerd and I am looking for good poetry to read. My favourite poem is The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot, what are you some of your favourites?

Have you read The Indian Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelly?
It's amazing.

[Wide Eyed Wanderer]

I like almost all poems I've done over the past 4 years, with the exception of Robert Frost.
I REALLY liked 'poem' by Simon Armitage, 'Lady of Shallot' by Tennyson and "War Photographer" by Carol An Duffy (From O Level Lit)

From IB I like the poems 'Blackberry Picking' - Seamus Heaney and Sylvia Plath poems generally.

I have a list of poems I really like outside the course. Two I can remember off the top of my head are 'Among School Children' by WB Yeats and 'Andrea del Sarto' by Robert Browning

[StSilver]

When it comes to written verse, I'd say my favorites are 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Coleridge, or Sylvia Plath's 'Daddy', which is slightly strange, considering I'm not a big Plath fan, but that poem is great.

I do like spoken word too, and I'd seriously encourage listening to Sarah Kay and Project VOICE, that girl is awesome.

[Jasmeena]

Pablo Neruda - The Saddest Lines and Edgar Allan Poe - Annabel Lee

[krakaton]

Full Moon and Little Frieda - Ted Hughes (the emotion he evokes is incredible1)
Report to Wordsworth - Boey Kim Cheng (a contemporary look at the degeneration of nature)
Road not Taken - Robert Frost (duh)
Oh the Places You'll Go - Dr. Seuss (can't beat it)

[Tony Stark]

Generally not a fan of poetry, but Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen is brilliant.

[Zurgalicious]

"Body of a Woman" by Pablo Neruda
and "In Mrs Tilscher's Class" by Carol Ann Duffy.

[Crazy Gemini]

Not usually a great fan of over analysis and bs-ing, but I did enjoy Electra on azalea path, daddy and morning song, all by Plath.

Otherwise, Duffy is a mysandrist who wrote terrifying poetry...