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 Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:50 pm Post subject: Here's one you YWSers will love: Find me some poetry! |
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For my Creative Writing class, I have to paste 10 poems in my journal and respond to each one. I'm wondering if you guys have any favorite works you think I should read and write about in this journal. Obviously, no stuff from on here, it has to be published and legit and all.
I don't want:
-Poetry that is very difficult to interpret/understand without sounding like an idiot.
-Really long poems. Use your common sense. It's a regular composition notebook and I don't want to fill up more than two pages pasting a poem in.
-Highly experimental stuff.
Links would be appreciated! I have to hand this in on February 16th.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| "Tourists" by Yehuda Amichai |
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Robert Frost! Fire and Ice is awesome.. The Road Less Traveled, I think is the other one I'm thinking of by Frost.
Annable Lee -- Poe! That's a good one, but a bit long. Actually, almost anything Poe.
Tennyson is good, too.
Want something completely differeny? Casey at the Bat (don't remember who wrote it) baseball poem! From a huge baseball nut. What else, what else... I can think of more, if you want!
And Shakespeare! Gah, can't forget the Bard, can we? Just do a search for Spakeaspeare and sonnets -- you'll get tons. Pick and choose!
A friend loves Sylvia Path... only read one or two of her poems, but what I've read was awesome. |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:55 am Post subject: |
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Casey at the bat is a great poem!
What kind of poetry are you looking for? That will enable me to help you better. (i.e. time periods, subject matter, the like) |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:00 am Post subject: |
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| [url]www.shadowpoetry.com[/url] has some good ones. |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:15 pm Post subject: Re: Here's one you YWSers will love: Find me some poetry! |
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I don't want:
-Poetry that is very difficult to interpret/understand without sounding like an idiot.
-Really long poems. Use your common sense. It's a regular composition notebook and I don't want to fill up more than two pages pasting a poem in.
-Highly experimental stuff. |
I was going to suggest Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, it is fun to read especially the strange words. I always loved the words Bandersnatch and manxome. |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, Lewis Carroll.
I'm not looking for any specific type, I just don't really want to see old stuff that's super-long and hard to just read. As in, no Paradise Lost.
Thanks, all!
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http://www.rosabelleilles.com/preview4.htm
Might want to look, highly enjoyable 
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:33 am Post subject: |
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The History Teacher by Billy Collins
Don't have a link, sorry. |
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| *hugs Trident* I love Billy Collins. I do believe I've read that one. 'Tis good. |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:17 am Post subject: |
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Shel Silverstein has some good/funny poems. I liked one of his poems called "Homemade Boat".
Um...I don't know what else is out there besides what has already been said, since I don't really read poetry.
Oh I know, how about the Odyssey? *Is joking* That would take for ever to paste or copy in a journal/notebook. |
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I love Robert Frost, he would be great...try "On Going Unnoticed," it's a study of the grandeur of the forest, and man's place in the world. Also, William Blake, who's kind of old, but wrote simplistic poems, mostly about nature. I like his Introduction to Songs of Innocence, and "The Tyger" and "The Lamb"
Quote from Blake's Introduction to Songs of Innocence:
"Piper sit thee down and write
in a book that all may read-
So he vanish'd from my sight.
And I pluck'd a hollow reed.
And I made a rural pen,
And I stain'd the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs,
Every child may joy to hear." |
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| Some of Emily Dickenson's work isn't that bad (I think that's how you spell her last name). I like Longfellow's work, though that might be too long..... |
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| There's this one poem I vaguely remember. I think it's called "Auntie's Skirts"? Anyway, I seem to remember that it was only like five lines long...but it was a while ago... |
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