Poetry

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>So, I need help choosing a poem. The poem can be from this website (not sure if we can post links, so I won't), poetryoutloud.org. I can also choose poems from any poet from the 19th century.
Do you guys have any suggestions/opinions or favorites. </p>

<p>BTW, poetryoutloud is actually a contest (poetry reciting), and our school and teachers are encouraging us to try it out, I actually am kind of interested, but I just need a good poem.</p>

<p>Things I'm looking for:</p>

<p>meaning
at least 16 lines
and thats pretty much it.</p>

<p>I also encourage you guys to try the contest if your interested.</p>

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<p>So, if a poem isn<code>t on that website, but was written in the 1800</code>s, you can still use it?</p>

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<p>Yeah I guess, but I’m doing this for my project. But for the contest, you have to use the poems on the website. I know, many people have been saying it sucks, but there are some pretty good poems I think.</p>

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<p>Who is the poem by?</p>

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<p>What do you guys think of “Ode” by Arthur O’Shaughnessy</p>

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<p>This is my favorite poem:</p>

<pre><code> O Captain, My Captain
by Walt Whitman
</code></pre>

<p>O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.</p>

<p>O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up–for you the flag is flung–for you the bugle trills; 10
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths–for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.</p>

<p>My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won; 20
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.</p>

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<p>The Tyger by William Blake is pretty good. Explores the Manichean heresy.</p>

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<p>O captain was my first choice, but it was already taken by my friend, so I chose to do another one.</p>

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<p>No but seriously, the tyger is legit.</p>

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<p>Ah, OK.</p>

<p>10char</p>

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<p>@muta, yeah I actually like it. Thanks.
Feel free to post any other poems you guys like</p>

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<p>Chimney Sweeper(Songs of Innocence) by William Blake.The version in the Songs of Experience is too short.</p>

<p>They are both really depressing and they deal with the hypocrisy and evil in a society that deals only in appearances and turns a blind eye to suffering and poverty.</p>

<p>Really any society if you think of it.</p>

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<p>Isn’t there different versions or something for Chimney Sweeper</p>

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<p>Yes, I mentioned that. The Chimney Sweeper in Songs of Innocence should fit the length req. Its about 25 lines.</p>

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<p>What do you guys think of Invictus by William Ernest Henley.</p>

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<p>Tyger…like it</p>