Who is your favorite poet of all time?

Question

Mine is Kahil Gibbran.... absolutely my all time, best loved poet and philosopher.

Tell me a few of your favorites?

Also like Lord Byron,Oscar Wilde's poems and Ezra Pound :)

Answer 1

My two favorites are Longfellow and Poe.
I also like William Carlos Williams.

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Answer 2

Yeah i would have to go with Gibbran as well... but like with music i dont favorite artist or writer.. Walt witman has a couple of my favorites.. also edgar allen poe... Arthur Miller (hes not a poet) ... and i really love some of Tupacs poems

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Poetry is my everything

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Answer 3

Every poet I have read so far sucks. Maybe I just haven't been looking in the right places?

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Answer 4

T.S. Eliot.

Along with John Donne, to a point, and more for reasons beyond the actual poetry. He was far more of an innovator than he got credit for.

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Answer 5

Walt whitman,and myself! Put your opinion of My poem!http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;…

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Answer 6

the ones not yet discovered.

like on here.
the ones with fresh ideas not tainted by the pressure to be good.
free writing.

that's the best :]

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Answer 7

Wallace Stevens is at the top of the list. Emily Dickinson is also one of my faves. Robert Browning, and of course, Mr. Shakespeare

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Answer 8

I like Oscar Wilde's plays better than his poems, but the Ballad of Reading Gaol is pretty powerful stuff! I love Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot.

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Answer 9

Billy Collins...one of my favorites (also the history teacher is another good poem)

Love by Billy Collins

The boy at the far end of the train car
kept looking behind him
as if he were afraid or expecting someone

and then she appeared in the glass door
of the forward car and he rose
and opened the door and let her in

and she entered the car carrying
a large black case
in the unmistakable shape of a cello.

She looked like an angel with a high forehead
and somber eyes and her hair
was tied up behind her neck with a black bow.

And because of all that,
he seemed a little awkward
in his happiness to see her,

whereas she was simply there,
perfectly existing as a creature
with a soft face who played the cello.

And the reason I am writing this
on the back of a manila envelope
now that they have left the train together

is to tell you that when she turned
to lift the large, delicate cello
onto the overhead rack,

I saw him looking up at her
and what she was doing
the way the eyes of saints are painted

when they are looking up at God
when he is doing something remarkable,
something that identifies him as God.

also sylvia plath, robert frost

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AP english

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Answer 10

Donne, T.S Eliot, Shakespeare

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Answer 11

Romantic Poetry - William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman
Metaphysical Poetry - John Donne :)

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Answer 12

I never got into poetry ... maybe just never found the right person ... I almost like to think of Edgar A. Poe as being a poet but I doubt he fits the definition ... but I love the Tell Tale Heart and the one where the bird comes a knocking and a knocking at the chamber door ....

I would prob like Oscar Wilde I'm sure but I need to rest my head on your lap while I lay across the sofa and you sit there and stroke my hair while you read poetry to me ... I would REALLY get into poetry then I'm sure.

I like verses and quotations and Latin ... more than anything ... but then I'm perhaps strange by some measures ...

I speak poetically when I'm casting spells or greeting God in the morning or thanking the Universe for all they have given me as I walk out to my truck in the morning ... that way I get fewer surprises ... like the flat tire the other day ....

That's it for me I guess ...

I AM
Dartagnon

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Answer 13

I'm not too big on reading poetry but im a huge fan of Robert Frost and i also like Edgar Allan Poe's work

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Answer 14

Allen Ginsberg. Word.

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