Poetry

"This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper."

The Modernists are a good group of poets to begin with. The quotation is from T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men." You should check out William Carlos Williams or Wallace Stevens too.
 
Shel Silverstein was probably my biggest inspiration to write poems and rhymes like i do today. I owned both "Where the Sidewalks Ends," and "A Light in the Attic."

How many, How much

How many slams in an old screen door?

Depends how loud you shut it.

How many slices in a bread?

Depends how thin you cut it.

How much good inside a day?

Depends how good you live 'em.

How much love inside a friend?

Depends how much you give 'em.

one more

The Little Boy and the Old Man

Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."

Said the little old man, "I do that too."

The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants."

"I do that too," laughed the little old man.

Said the little boy, "I often cry."

The old man nodded, "So do I."

"But worst of all," said the boy,"it seems

Grownups don't pay attention to me."

And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.

"I know what you mean," said the little old man.
 
edgar allen poe. he married his teenaged cousin when he was in his twenties. if that doesnt inspire poetry, i dont know what does
 
word. my favorite by eliot are his four quartets, but those are a little intense. the hollow men is a little more manageable
 
fuckin' bill bissset, cause he's out of his mind. he's in my town, and i get to meet him tonight.

or do someone like..jack kerouac.

?
 
it seems u guys like ts elliot so i just read the hollow men but i have know clue what it means cans somebody help me?
 
i dont like poetry or english class at all, but ever sence i wrote her a entry exam for her class she keeps reading my assignments to the class, what a bitch
 
here's one i wrote a couple years back

roses are red

violets are blue

im schizophrenic

and so am i
 
okay.

you have

geoffrey chaucer

john milton - more known for his epics such as paradaise lost which is something everyone should read in their life

john dryden

jonathan swift- known for gullivers travels and also modest proposal which is a satirical read.

william blake- he has a lot of good poems, i like the tyger and holy thursday the best, they are all nice and short

william wordsworth

samuel coleridge - the eolian harp, about the dichotomy of nature and life. an aeolian harp is put in a window pane and the wind blows through it to create random ass music

john keats- wrote many odes, i like ode to a nightingale the best

robert browning

william yeats- really good work

t.s. eliot- hollow men which you were looking at, watch the marlon brando part in apocalyspe now to maybe understand it better it would also help if you read the heart of darkness before reading this poem and even before watching apocalypse now because that is the quote in the beginning 'mistah kurtz- he dead'

and a bunch of others i don't feel like listing.
 
honestly i dont get poetry so could you guys tell me like what a poems about or what it means if you suggest one
 
haha im an English major and my specialisation is Romantic poetry (The era not roses are red bullshit) Whattheshit has a good list, i recommend Wordsworth (Tintern Abbey), Keats, Yates, and Browning (My last duchess). The great thing about English is you often have freedom to write on any poem you want, i wrote my last paper on a dude trying to get laid in Andrew Marvel's "To His Coy Mistress"
 
my last duchess is a good story.

about this dude that controls his wife even after she is dead, presumably has her killed on the premise of jealousy and keeps her portrait behind a curtain, only allowing it to be viewed at his own discretion. makes me laugh.

oh yea, i am an english major as well.
 
all the poems u guys are suggesting are way too long so it would be nice if u gave me some short ones
 
k so i like william blakes style but im an idiot and have no clue what his poems mean so if somebody know any good poems by william blake that have a good meaning can u let me know?
 
"i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an andry fix,

angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,

who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz..."

from "Howl," Allen Ginsberg
 
who cares what he did, like marry his teenage cousin, like 40% of all marrages, ate cousin marrages, and thats right out of the news. but yah edgar allen poe was a crazy good poet.
 
well which one do you like. or the one you feel you have the best understanding of.

take a look at 'the chimney sweeper' its pretty self-explanatory and can be carried on to this very day where child labour is still a problem.
 
ya i read that one i liked it but i didnt really understand it until u told me about it. ya thats how much i suck at poetry
 
and the black coffins represent the chimneys. lots of kids died doing that.

and the weep weep weep part is a play on words of the chimney sweeper street cry 'sweep, sweep, sweep'

i know there is something that has to do with the lamb and shaving the curls. maybe innocence or something or about the spring lamb going to slaughter.

just do a search on google, there are so many analytical papers on blake poems you are bound to find something.
 
we need a poetry thread, there were several good poets listed there, it would be cool to see what everyone had a bias to, and to see some of their poems. Wow i sound gay suggesting that, no wait sensitive, bitches dig sensitive guys and shit.
 
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