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10-05-2014, 07:57 PM
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Your favourite poet?
I've been reading a lot of poetry lately, and I thought some discussion would be interesting. My all time favourite is Robert Frost without a doubt. He conveys such a sense of melancholy beauty in every sentence. Especially "After Apple Picking" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". I once saw a choral version of the latter set to music performed, and it was possibly the most poignant piece of music I've ever heard.
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10-05-2014, 07:59 PM
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SOPHIE FOREVER
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E.E. Cummings
l(a le af fa ll s) one l iness
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10-06-2014, 02:38 AM
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no clue who my favorite would be, but richard siken's crush is a wonderful collection of poetry. i thought maggie nelson's bluets was nice too, as well as brautigan's pill versus the springhill mine disaster.
anis mojgani is usually great, but there's a poem or so of his that i don't dig as much from time to time
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10-10-2014, 01:37 AM
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I think Keats is a poet who has a consistent hold on my heart.
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10-10-2014, 04:40 AM
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10-10-2014, 10:07 PM
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I def wanna check some Bukowski, I'm always kinda thinking I won't like the Beat types like I think he's associated with but he seems to have a more self-deprecating aura about him
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10-10-2014, 11:42 PM
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Dude... What?
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^that and... you know... creepy misogyny.
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I hate this kinda ****. Got something to say? Say it. Eloquence is one thing but absurd rearrangement for the sake of being confusing is just boring
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10-11-2014, 12:26 AM
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It's a testament to loneliness. The image of a leaf falling speaks for itself in that sense. The use of one, the stand-alone l (which looks like I or 1), iness ("I"-ness) and the shape of the poem too all attributes to that. The grouping of the lettering in pairs conveys a sense of longing to break the loneliness as well, and l(a suggests that there's a barrier between 1 and a(nother). Preciseness is great but I appreciate Cummings a lot more because of how much you can find in it. I don't think that it's strictly to be confusing since it adds so much more to the poem.
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