What is your all time favorite poem? And who is your favorite poet?
@miahezcomakrob (27)
United States
October 28, 2006 11:22am CST
If you could pick just one poem that would be your favorite what would it be and who is it by? Mine is by Edgar A. Guest and it's called MYSELF.
I have to live with myself and so I want to be fit for myself to know, I want to be able as days go by, Always to look myself stright in the eye; I don't want to stand, with the setting sun, And hate myself for things I have done.
I don't want to keep on a closet shelf A lot of secrets about myself, And fool myself, as I come and go, Into thinking that nobody else will know The kind of man I really am; I don't want to dress up myself in sham.
I want to go out with my head erect, I want to deserve all mens respect; But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know that I'm bluster and bluff and empty show.
I can never hide myself from me; I see what others may never see; I know what others may never know, I can never fool myself, and so, Whatever happends, I want to be Self-respecting and conscience free.
that has to be my all time favorite poem but but favorite poet would have to be shel silverstien!
4 responses
@miahezcomakrob (27)
• United States
28 Oct 06
Edgar Allen Poe very cool. Also a great poet Ogden Nash! My ex had a grandfather who loved him and I always enjoyed reading the latest ones he would type up and bring with him on his visits to see us. When he passed away at his memorial service William Hurt who was a flight student of grandpa's read a Ogden Nash poem about food that made us all laugh.
@joynatarajan (335)
• India
1 Nov 06
Mine is THE DAFFODILS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.... I remember reading it as a kid, and I would feel my heart soar..... I just love poetry
I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretch'd in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
@J_peso (2430)
• United States
28 Oct 06
the poem that i seem to like right now is Fire and ice by Frost .....IT seems to
kinda linger on and on
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Most would know hes describing the nature of mankind :)
FAvorite poet well thats a very difficult choice to make but for now it would be keats
@miahezcomakrob (27)
• United States
28 Oct 06
very cool! I love poetry so much it is hard to just pick one poet. It seems eaiser to pick a favorite poem cause you tend to gravitate toward poems that reflect events or things that are going on or that are meaningful in your life at that time I think anyway.? Would you agree?
@heartonfire (4119)
• Denmark
31 Oct 06
the greatest writer ever for me is Eminescu...but he is a romanian poet,so i don't think you have heard of him..i know he has his poems translated into many languages so i would be happy if anybodyelse knows about him
@sbeauty (5865)
• United States
31 Oct 06
That's a hard one because there are so many. I love Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky for children. I read many of their poems to my classes, and they loved them, too.
I like Poe, especially The Raven and Annabelle Lee. I like "If" by Rudyard Kipling. The Highwayman, but I'm blanking right now on who wrote that. And then there's Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.
There is a kind of poetry for everyone's tastes. I wish more people would make a practice of reading it.
