What are some of your favorite poems/poets?

Kanye

Bob Dylan

The Iliad is my favorite by far.

President-elect Trump's twitter account.

Romantic period British poetry in general.

>>8725189
This

And wallace stevens

Rupi Kaur
John Donne
Savannah Brown
David Foster Wallace

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>Native English speaker
>Learning two more languages just so I can get away from the festering pit that is English language poetry
Feels tortured. I can only into folk ballads, because of the rustic simplicity, the interesting grammar force by the rhythm, and the emotive contexts the performative aspects provide.

Whitman's When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer:

When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

George Herbert's Dialogue:

Man:
Sweetest Saviour, if my soul
Were but worth the having,
Quickly should I then controll
Any thought of waving.
But when all my care and pains
Cannot give the name of gains
To thy wretch so full of stains;
What delight or hope remains?

Lord:
What (childe) is the ballance thine,
Thine the poise and measure?
If I say, Thou shalt be mine;
Finger not my treasure.
What the gains in having thee
Do amount to, onely he,
Who for man was sold, can see;
That transferr’d th’accounts to me.

Man:
But as I can see no merit,
Leading to this favour:
So the way to fit me for it,
Is beyond my savour.
As the reason then is thine;
So the way is none of mine:
I disclaim the whole designe:
Sinne disclaims and I resign.

Lord:
That is all, if that I could
Get without repining;
And my clay my creature would
Follow my resigning.
That as I did freely part
With my glorie and desert,
Left all joyes to feel all smart ----

Man:
Ah! no more: thou break’st my heart.

>>8725032
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake

Plath (Daddy)
Cummings (A Cannotation of Infinity, Notice Convulsed Orange Inch of Moon)
Frost (Stopping by Woods, The Sound of Trees)
Tennyson (The Two Voices, Mariana in the South)
Poe

>>8725032
why is english poetry so shit compared to french poetry?

Is it just because french is a more poetic language or is it because english poets suck?

Dickinson
Keats
Whitman
And of course Silverstein lol

>>8725649
Its caise ur a plebe

>>8725238
that fucking sucked