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What's the most famous poem in the English language?

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Some friends and I were having a debate about what's the most famous poem in the English language because we're real cool and this is what we do while we're drinking and doing nothing.

What do you think, /lit/?

We argued for a few of these, in no order:

>Robert Frost - "The Road Not Taken"
>William Shakespeare - "Sonnet 18"
>Edgar Allen Poe - "The Raven"
>Walt Whitman - "O Captain! My Captain!"
>Rudyard Kipling - "If"
>Dr. Seuss - "Oh the Places You'll Go"

We did not count things like songs, bible verses, or things like the "to be or not to be" speech from Hamlet. We only tried to argue distinct poems specifically written as a poem, and not epic poems like Paradise Lost or something.

Anyway, what do you think?
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may i compare thee
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>>9789121
sonnet 18
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>>9789121
Probably a tie between your Frost and Poe selections, yeah, with Poe given the lead because it's hard to say how many simply know the words "the road not taken" as an idiom unto itself, just like how "Better to have loved..." ("In Memoriam A.H.H.") is more well-known than "The Raven," but how many actually know they're quoting from a Tennyson poem?
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Sonnet 18 or The Road Not Taken
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Not a debate:

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet,
And so are you.
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It's The Raven, hands down. The phrases "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary" and "Evermore" have entered the lexicon in the same way "Wherefore art thou Romeo," "It was the best of times it was the worst of times" and other such phrases have.
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>>9789121
Charge of the Light Brigade
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Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of peace.

Otherwise it has to be 1 Corinthians love is patient
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>>9789121
Fucking hell I hate "If" so much. It's a poem for people who don't like poetry.
Also
>Dr. Seuss
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