Poetry

Post your top three favorite poets

1. Homer
2. Chaucer
3. Pushkin

How's my taste Yea Forums?

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pretty meh. also, epic/narrative poetry and lyrical poetry are fundamentally different genres.

But poetry none the less. What's meh about Homer?

>But poetry none the less.
Sure, but it's like comparing short stories to novels. They're different.
>What's meh about Homer?
Nothing meh about the poets themselves (except Pushkin) but your overall taste is meh.

>Sure, but it's like comparing short stories to novels. They're different.
But some novels are short stories

>but your overall taste is meh.
explain thyself please

Not trying to be clever or contradictory about it, but i am curious as to where you think ballads fit in to that distinction, there are plenty that are a bit of both. I guess like any genre distinction there will be messy examples that don't quite fit anywhere, but i am curious as to whether you have your own concrete definitions.

Anyway, as far as personal enjoyment goes
Spenser
Gawain poet
Dryden
I guess. I hate choosing favourites anyway.

I mean poesy is poesy despite genre, not that I despite genre, heh. Anyway Ballads and Sonnets are like, uh, songlike poems right? I cannot remember the metre and rhyming compulsions, but that has a great deal to do with it as well of course. Chaucer has the best Ballads btw.

>except Pushkin
What's wrong with Pushkin? I know he was a Mason prick but his verse is fantastic. I like feet too.

1. Emily Dickinson
2. John Donne
3. Homer

It is a hard choice between Shakespeare and Donne because they are both teaching me about Sonnets and both are just magnificent.

I think a Ballad assumes a form 4/3/4/3, but mostly waht distinguishes Ballad from other narrative poetry is the way in which it is expressed and theme. Ballad is commonly associated with song, and during a "preformence" the bard will modify and exentuate certain parts. Futher, a ballad will put action above all else; the story must maintain constant motion and not be bogged down by characters or epic metaphors. In keeping with this last point, I read ballads described as being painted in primary colors.

>Dryden
based

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I would agree that Donne and Shakespeare are both magnificent, but my scale tips in favour of Shakespeare, but that might be because I haven't read enough Donne and I read the Sonnets at a very critical time in my life. Good taste dude!

> Alexander Pope
> William Wordsworth
> Matthew Arnold

I really wish latin was still more widely taught, then I could have been more like the poets I love instead of living like an American brat for so many years

Seeking validation is fucking gay, fuck off

Oh yeah, Pope is always good.

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I suppose...
Kinda just wanted to talk to other people who liked Homer and stuff

dubs btw

I find the most fascinating part of Homer on a technical level is his use of simile. The way in which he weaves metaphor into the action to not only extenuate the themes but illustrate a beautiful (and paradoxical) picture while pushing forward the action is astonishing.

I would strongly agree, he makes fucking winnowing exciting.

What do you like about Arnold?

Rate my poem
Fresco, fresco! I hope you're working hard!
You know that it's not yet time
To lay of the labor, you must still work!
Who do you think you are, nothing but a slave
For me to do whatever I want with!
So you must learn how to behave, in any way
Your boss requires of you, listen to me, slave!
You have sold off your rights, the moment you began
to wageslave, in order to afford things, you won't have time
To play! To have fun, or to in any way
Enjoy, be it as it may!

Wagie, wagie, have you not heard your boss?
It's time back to get into your cage!
For even though today may be saturday,
Before you notice Monday shall come again!
And you will slave away, and absolutely loathe
Every waking moment of your work
Yet it shall nevertheless be done
For you have no rights now, you are a slave!
To the system and to your boss,
Who now holds millions in his bank account
Earning money from the proletariat,
And all of his gathered effort and endeavor!

Wagie, wagie, you are now a slave!
To do with as I please, as it may
Make me more money to spend
On luxury watches and yachtes
I leech of the proletariat!

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Lorca or Darío
Dickinson
Eliot

Hart Crane
Marianne Moore
Emily Dickinson

1.homer
2.enheduanna
3.vergil

1. Dante
2. Robert Frost
3. Catullus

1. yeats
2. Eliot
3. Blake

1. Rimbaud
2. Lautreamont
3. Mallarme

In English:
1. Coleridge
2. Milton
3. Tennyson

I am constantly surprised that Dickerson is not more of a feminist hero. She was literally a woman who through only her own genius wrote some of the best modern poetry.

Catullus
Eino Leino
A.E. Housman

Homer is great, and would make my list, but I agree with the user who says epic and lyric ought to be treated separately just like novels and short stories should.