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| What's your favorite poem? nisetru 22 Mar 08 3:42AM | Thread Closed |
We've decided to ask you all if you have a favorite poem, and.. if so, which is it and why. Tell us anything related to the subject, when, why, a specific poem among an infinity of (great) poems started to be your most beloved :)
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My own favorite is "If", by Rudyard Kipling
I'll post the first stanza from it:
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:"
I've discovered it on a poetry channel and liked it on the spot; it's very profound, it's got a great set of guiding lines that should be followed.. reason why I prefer it to Neruda or Poe or Stanescu or other poets I like..
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| re: What's your favorite poem? fractalcore 22 Mar 08 4:06AM | Thread Closed |
well that's a toughie 'coz i've written only 28 pieces
in my entire life without much influence from the great
poets of olden times. i don't really know any of them
or their works. i've only had an audio tape of Neruda's
poems in English read by celebrities and i gave it to a
friend about 10 yrs ago. i don't clearly remember any
particular poem on that tape though. and there was once
an Emily Dickenson book of poems i saw at and wanted to
sneak out of the university library but didn't really push
through with the looting. again, no poem of hers stuck with
me. what a loser i am, right?
but this i can say: now that i'm here on PC, i'm faced with
more great poetry by great poets than i can ever handle.
i think those who've hit the bucket have passed on a legacy
which a lot of great minds/souls here now are sharing and
i'm just so glad to be a part of the learning process.
bottom line is i don't really have a particular fave...
though i can think about your "Birthday poem" amongst
many others.
does that count and qualify me into this thread?
: )
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| re: What's your favorite poem? unknown 22 Mar 08 5:47AM | Thread Closed |
I wanna have hot, dirty sex with fractalcore. Can I email you and get this action going?
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| re: What's your favorite poem? fractalcore 22 Mar 08 5:59AM | Thread Closed |
i'm below 18, unk. sorry.
thanks for the offer though.
: )
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| re: What's your favorite poem? fractalcore 22 Mar 08 6:10AM | Thread Closed |
and i really do think Kurt Cobain's poetry
[and music] is THE thing. wish i could write
like that.
: )
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| re: What's your favorite poem? jenakajoffer 22 Mar 08 6:58AM | Thread Closed |
my fave
the lady of shallot
by tennyson
and that is because i am sickeningly romantic
tragic
and i love knights and kings and camelot;
not to mention the emotional flow in the poem
that just fills me with all my hopeless dreams.
in a good way. =-)
however, that said
i haven't read a huge variety of poetry
yet
so my awareness of what i love is limited
for now.
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| re: What's your favorite poem? unknown 22 Mar 08 7:51AM | Thread Closed |
I don't really have any one favorite poem. But a few poems that spring to mind that have meant a lot to me at various times in my life are... Danse Russe by WCW, Dolor by Roethke, 1(a by Cummings, the Listeners by Walter De La Mare, Daddy by Plath, A Supermarket in California by Ginsberg, Her breast is fit for pearls by Dickinson, and Should Lanterns Shine by Dylan Thomas. Oh, and Beowulf.
diz
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| re: What's your favorite poem? DeformedLion 22 Mar 08 7:52AM | Thread Closed |
Donne wrote some good stuff.
His holy sonnets-- "Death be not proud..." and all that.
Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg is a favourite as well.
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| re: What's your favorite poem? Ananke 22 Mar 08 8:28AM | Thread Closed |
who's "we"?
My favorite poem is this one by Rilke (translation by Robert Bly):
My life is not this steeply sloping hour,
in which you see me hurrying.
Much stands before me;
I stand before it like a tree.
I am only one of my many mouths,
and at that the one that will be still the soonest.
I am the rest between two notes
which are somehow always in discord,
because Death's note wants to climb over,
but in the dark interval, reconciled,
they stay there trembling,
and the song goes on, beautiful.
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The first time I read that was in my grandma's house in Alaska, and it touched me so much. Since then I have had a love affair with Rilke :) lol, well not so much, but it's really that second stanza that gets me.
I am planning on getting "and the song goes on, beautiful" as a tattoo, with a quarter rest next to it.
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| re: What's your favorite poem? fractalcore 22 Mar 08 9:00AM | Thread Closed |
> who's "we"?
>
> My favorite poem is this one by Rilke (translation by Robert Bly):
>
> My life is not this steeply sloping hour,
> in which you see me hurrying.
> Much stands before me;
> I stand before it like a tree.
> I am only one of my many mouths,
> and at that the one that will be still the soonest.
>
> I am the rest between two notes
> which are somehow always in discord,
> because Death's note wants to climb over,
> but in the dark interval, reconciled,
> they stay there trembling,
> and the song goes on, beautiful.
>
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> The first time I read that was in my grandma's house in Alaska, and
> it touched me so much. Since then I have had a love affair with Rilke
> :) lol, well not so much, but it's really that second stanza that
> gets me.
>
> I am planning on getting "and the song goes on, beautiful" as a
> tattoo, with a quarter rest next to it.
ooh, don't you already have hank's
your pulse, my metronome?
or was it another person?
: )
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