Name 5 Of Your Favorite Poets

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  1. Dwight Ward

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    Notice I didn't ask for your 5 favorites but 5 of your favorites. I wouldn't be able to decide my 5 favorites. Here's my 5. I might be asking why you like the ones you choose.

    William Blake
    John Donne
    e. e. cummings
    Bob Dylan
    Edgar Allan Poe
     
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    Robert Frost

    That's all.
     
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    You've asked for it, Nancy. Tell us why you like him so much. What are some of your favorite poems by him?
     
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    First, poetry is not my favorite thing. I like straightforward, tell me what you think, no beating around the bush.

    Frost pushes the limits of making me think, but not so much it hurts. ;)
     
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    RUDYARD KIPLING
    Jack London
    Robert Service
     
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    Sam Walter Foss
    Clement Clarke Moore
    Unknown ( Big Ed's A Coming)
    Edgar Allan Poe
    Mother Goose
     
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    EA Poe, Gwendolyn Brooks, RL Stevenson, Carl Sandburg, R Kipling
     
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
    I have not read all of his poetry, but I love the Song of Hiawatha, I remember reading parts of it when I was still a teenager. It is a really long poem, and is about the life and travels of Hiawatha, and the love of his life, beautiful Minehaha, Laughing Waters.
    I like the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, too, and the history that it tells of.
    I think that my favorite is the one which has become a beloved Christmas carol, I heard the Bells on Christmas Day, which is a story/song that came from the sorrows of his own heart and life.
    https://poets.org/poem/christmas-bells

    Here is a beautiful rendition of the song, and how it came to be written, and even though we are a ways from Christmas, It is still a wonderful and inspiring story.

     
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    Five poets? I didn't think there were that many. :confused:
     
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    HEY DWIGHT...

    You're undoubtedly aware that poet e. e. cummings preferred his name to be professionally shown in lower case letters, as you have properly indicated.:)

    Hal
     
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    Poe, Stevenson, Sandburg and...KIPLING!
    A great quartet!

    I liked R.L. Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses"
    Hal
     
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    A great quintet, when Brooks is included.
     
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    I don't have a favorite because I have never been interested in poetry except to make one up my self.

    I awoke one morning to see a lovely little bird with a pretty yellow bill sitting on my window sill. I offered and he accepted my humble crust of bread, and then I slammed the window and crushed his little head.
     
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    Brilliant poem about an average man:
    anyone lived in a pretty how town
    e. e. cummings
    anyone lived in a pretty how town
    (with up so floating many bells down)
    spring summer autumn winter
    he sang his didn't he danced his did.

    Women and men (both little and small)
    cared for anyone not at all
    they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
    sun moon stars rain

    children guessed (but only a few
    and down they forgot as up they grew
    autumn winter spring summer)
    that no one loved him more by more

    when by now and tree by leaf
    she laughed his joy she cried his grief
    bird by snow and stir by still
    anyone's any was all to her

    someones married their everyones
    laughed their cryings and did their dance
    (sleep wake hope and then) they
    said their nevers they slept their dream

    stars rain sun moon
    (and only the snow can begin to explain
    how children are apt to forget to remember
    with up so floating many bells down)

    one day anyone died i guess
    (and no one stooped to kiss his face)
    busy folk buried them side by side
    little by little and was by was

    all by all and deep by deep
    and more by more they dream their sleep
    no one and anyone earth by april
    wish by spirit and if by yes.

    Women and men (both dong and ding)
    summer autumn winter spring
    reaped their sowing and went their came
    sun moon stars rain
     
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