<p>We just started a poetry unit, and what we have to do is pick a poet and read two works from that poet and do some analysis. Do you guys have any good poets you'd like to recommend?</p>
<p>John Donne.</p>
<p>^ I second John Donne.</p>
<p>His poetry is a little "deep" for me, but if you're a guy, you'd appreciate the stuff he wrote down.</p>
<p>lol, for example, the whole point of John Donne's "The Flea" can be summed up as "I've already sucked your blood; I've already been in you. You should just let me do you."</p>
<p>Rainer Maria Rilke and James Tate.</p>
<p>charles baudelaire</p>
<p>Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Kubla Khan" is one heck of a... a... I don't know. It's a trip, though. ^.^ </p>
<p>But as far as a poet, rather than a poem, is concerned... Personally, I love Billy Collins. :D:D:D He's apparently reviled by the highbrow poetry community for being too accessible. I'd never heard of that being a bad thing, but I guess it's not the "in" thing to be at all comprehensible. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Bruce Weigl, Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman -> all very different, but all very good</p>
<p>WALT WHITMAN. He's the definitive American poet, and in many ways the definitive American. No one beats WW.</p>
<p>My other faves are Tennyson, Pound, and as previously mentioned, Donne. More obscure but very Whitmany is Gary Snyder.</p>
<p>Nice! Your assignment sounds like one that I had to do for English, except I had to pick 2 poets and analyze 4 poems for each. I would suggest Phyllis Wheatley (she's awesome), and John Donne.</p>
<p>anything from "Transformations" by Anne Sexton :)</p>
<p>edgar allen poe- short, easy, symbolism is self explanatory.</p>
<p>ee cummings!! poe is good as well.. donne.. longfellow? </p>
<p>i'm reading post now.. I like it. It's more lighthearted, yet heavy with insight. Most are one or three stanzas.. and i really like the way she rhymes and twists her descriptions so you almost just get the aura of whatever it is she is describing</p>
<p>addendum:</p>
<p>.......
It suck'd me first; and now it sucks thee
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be
Though knowest that this cannot be said
A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead
Yet this enjoys before it woo
With pamperd swells with one blood made of two
And this, alas! Is more than we would do</p>
<p>Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,
Where we almost, yeah, more than married are
This flea is you and I, and this
Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is.
......
The Flea, by Donne</p>
<p>T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock... amazing :)</p>
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T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock... amazing
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"The Hollow Men" trumps Prufrock any day.</p>
<p>no no no. prufrock is amazing, altough you'll get props if you do wasteland. prufrock was the first non-shel silverstien poem i read and i love it so! not that silverstein isnt cool. </p>
<p>+langston hughes(theme for english B)or milton(paradise lost) Frank O'Hara(steps- <a href="http://plagiarist.com/poetry/1659/%5B/url%5D">http://plagiarist.com/poetry/1659/</a> ), allen ginsberg(howl). and im not even that into poetry.</p>
<p>POEM</p>
<p>Wouldn't it be funny
if The Finger had designed us
to **** just once a week?</p>
<p>all week long we'd get fatter
and fatter and then on Sunday morning
while everyone's in church</p>
<p>ploop!</p>
<p>--Frank O'Hara (1959)</p>
<p>Shel Silverstein to T.S. Eliot is a pretty big jump. Reminds me of when they made us read To Kill a Mockingbird in 6th grade and nobody understood a thing.</p>
<p>But seriously, Prufrock is a bit trivial in its surface appearance and too esoteric for me to analyze any deeper. The Hollow Men, on the other hand, is clear in its message yet reveals so much when you interpret it further.</p>
<p>Walt Whitman.</p>
<p>My two favorites are William Carlos Williams and Pablo Neruda. What can I say, I go for the weirdo Hispanic guys. :)</p>