Poetry and stuff...

[druffine]

K, flist , I need your help.

I want to get to know some poetry and the likes but I have no idea where to start with that, I mean I don't even know the children's rhymes and such...

So please, if you have a moment, paste me your favorite poem or one you think I should know into a comment and maybe a few words about it.

Thanks very much.

Oh and finally... it's over.

Comments

[tabaqui]

I really love Ezra Pound
and
A. E. Housman
and
e.e. cummings
and
Brain Candy has bits of many, many poems you can get inspired from and so does this and Robinson Jeffers...
and, oh, W.H. Auden and Byron and Walt Whitman and my very personal favorite of all time, Maxine Kumin.
If i had more time i'd type in a poem or two - i will later if you want!
:)
Hope this all helps.

[druffine.livejournal.com]

Oh I have a quote by Ezra Pound in my purse, it goes along the lines of:
If a man isn't ready to stand up for his convictions, either he or his convictions are not worse it.
(I guess it's a pretty bad translation.)

Somewhere on someone's journal (could have been yours) at the side I saw "Funeral Blues" by W.H.Auden and immediately printed it out, I love that one.

And I will check out the links you provided, thank you.

[tabaqui]

Hehe.

I hope you find the links helpful - i love all that stuff.

And no, i didn't post that poem, but it's very well known.

*smooch*