Poets

Lately I've been reading some poetry, and I'm really starting to like it. But I kinda ran out of poems to read, could you guys suggest any good poets or poems for a beginner. I like poems about anything really, but poems about nature I enjoy the most I guess.

 

You gotta check out Robert Frost, he's my favorite poet. http://plagiarist.com/poetry/poets/44/

Mary Oliver has a lot of good nature poems. http://plagiarist.com/poetry/poets/134/

And Willian Blake is also really good, it's more spiritual than about nature but I love it. I like "Songs of Innosence" and "Songs of Experience" the best, so far. The "illuminated" books of his are amazing, you can see them at this link: http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/indexworks.htm

Cool site because you can zoom in if you need to, to help you read it. Still, it might be good to find a text-only version to read along with. But don't skip the illuminated ones altogether, because they're beautiful and worth looking at.

 

Thanks a lot, I'll check them out ASAP

 

Edgar Allen Poe

 

Wow robert frost is great, just brilliant, my new favorite poet. Mary Oliver is also great to but not as brilliant as robert. William Blake is good but is my least favorite but id still good. I only read a couple so maybe I'll discover some hidden treasures.

Thanks for introducing me to them.

 

JACK KEROUAC
lawrence ferlinghetti
gregory corso
jim carroll

 

ALLEN GINSBERG <prolly my favoourite poet
all of the above too some great poets mentioned
jim morrisons stuff is wikid
and i like some of margaret atwood's poetry

 

Maybe wana try my poetry, its not the best but ill give it a shot.
http://steelyj0.googlepages.com/

 

Yeah. You don't really go wrong with the Beats.

I also really like Charles Bukowski and Gary Snyder. All of the beats had their own feel and rhythm and their own very distinct writing styles and influences, though.

Walt Whitman is also very good.

 

WH Auden. Some of his stuff is absolutely brilliant.

 

all the stuff other people have said is welll and good but it's mostly pretty cliche american stuff, if you want another kind of passion with words look outside of american poetry, believe me.

start with Federico Garcia Lorca... and go from there

 

Jim Morrison is my #1 favorite poet. I also write poetry.


Michelle

 

I always liked to read Rod McKuen when I first started out reading poetry...It's real easy and formulated like Frost.

 

also check out Hafiz, rabia, and Rumi.


happy reading

 

walt whitman

 

robert frost
jim morrison
shakespear
jewel (her poetry is beautiful and honest)

 

oh yes and thich nhat han (sp?) hes a buddhist, and he has alot of nature poems that are beautiful!! check him out

 

It's Thich Nhat Hahn, and yeah he's good. So is Rumi, from what I've seen. As far as foreign (non-American) poetry, I don't know tons because I only speak English, but I have read some translations of Pablo Neruda and it's definitely good stuff. Charles Baudelaire has some interesting works too.

 

Edgar Allan Poe is a great poet, but I dont think he'd be the best for a beginner.
Emily Dickinson is a pretty decent poet too, i like a lot of her works.
Robert Frost is a great poet.
William Blake is great.
M.D. Burke

 

Rumi speaks directly to the thirsts of the spirit and to the thirsts of the world. Let these words fly through time to someone coming,you know who you are. This love has nibbled on your ear,whispering secrets that don't make sense to anyone else. Where is this poem going? It's late,our master's eyes have closed in sleep, the musician's play softly but stay with me, friends,stay. Guard these words like gold.You are shining stars, every one of you. Now go and find you your sun!