Right now I couldn't even say which is my very favourite. But there are some beautiful Australian poems I can usually never get out of my head. Most by John O'Brien (Check him out in the database! He should be there!)
How about yours?
What is Your Favourite Poem of all time?
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It's impossible for me to choose one poem to call my favourite. But here is my latest evidence that e. e. cummings is an absolute genius:
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It varies, but one that always sticks with me is Pablo Neruda's "Poetry" --
And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don't know how or when,
no they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.
I did not know what to say, my mouth
had no way
with names,
my eyes were blind,
and something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten wings,
and I made my own way,
deciphering
that fire,
and I wrote the first faint line,
faint, without substance, pure
nonsense,
pure wisdom
of someone who knows nothing,
and suddenly I saw
the heavens
unfastened
and open,
planets,
palpitating plantations,
shadow perforated,
riddled
with arrows, fire and flowers,
the winding night, the universe.
And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.
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Favorite poem is Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen.
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Don't have a favorite, But if I had to pick my favorite poet, its Henry Wadsworth, I would choose his poems as my favorite!!!!
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Hadda Been Playin' On The Jukebox, by Allen Ginsberg. What a mastermind of beat poetry.
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My all-time favorite poem is The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot. I love the imagery in it and how it is very narrative-like. A very well-written poem, indeed!
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The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes, Anabelle Lee by Edgar Allan Poe, or Ego Trippin' by Nikki Giovanni. i LOOOOOOVE those
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One of my favourites is 'The Erl-king' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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so many poems i dont know
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My favorite poem of all time is the one I wrote about my dad who passed away eleven years ago. I would love to share it, sometime soon. It is entitled AN ADMIRABLE SOUL.
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The Rainy Day by Longfellow is my all time favorite.
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The Tiger by William Blake
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forest of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And What shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? and what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Also every single hilarious poem in the collection of cat poems "I Could Pee On This." If you like cats, you will crack up reading it. -
I unfortunately haven't been exposed to much poetry, but I do enjoy Shakespeare's "All The World's a Stage", especially the final line.
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Introduction to Poetry
Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
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