Do you enjoy poetry?

[keithy_19]

Simple question.

I've written a lot of stuff that I've passed off as shit, because to me anyone can write. Poetry always seemed like a cop out to me. The easiest form of written 'art'.

But today, my feelings have changed. I read some Anne Sexton pieces and you really feel what she writes. I've totally changed my previous views on poetry.

My stuff is still shit.

[dino_electropolis]

I love poetry....like well written, thought provoking poetry.


Nothing shitty like, say, Anne Sexton.

:tongue:

[furie]

meh, not really

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[keithy_19]

I love poetry....like well written, thought provoking poetry.


Nothing shitty like, say, Anne Sexton.

:tongue:

You just don't like her cause she stole Sylvia Plath's bit! Ya know, minus the whole Nazi Dad thing.

[Thomas Merton]

If stranded on a desert island, the two books I would want are the Bible and The Waste Land by TS Eliot

Keithy, drop a tab of orange sunshine and see what ends come out of the tip of your pencil :wink:

[DolaMight]

rap yes poetry no

[underdog]

I only like poetry if Dude! is writing it.

[Gvac]

I only like poetry if Dude! is writing it.

You obviously haven't studied HBox's haiku.

[keithy_19]

If stranded on a desert island, the two books I would want are the Bible and The Waste Land by TS Eliot

Keithy, drop a tab of orange sunshine and see what ends come out of the tip of your pencil :wink:

I like TS Eliot. I have that book and I've only read the smallest amount. Not sure why.

And I plan to. Hopefully in the Fall, but who knows.

It was weird. I'm taking a course, introduction to poetry, which sounds a lot simpler then it is. Because it's a 200 course it's really in depth and will actually be my most difficult this semester. We read 'Wanting To Die' by Anne Sexton. I never read much by her, but this particular poem hit me in an odd way. Two stanzas in particular:

"But suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tool.
They never ask why build."

and

"In this way, heavy and thoughtful,
warmer than oil or water,
I have rested, drooling at the mouth-hole."

The first stanza is beautiful to me. It's incredibly depressing, but there's this sense of peace as well.

The second one is more about the final line rather than the stanza as a whole. The dehumanizing quality of it is almost frightening. How she describes the mouth as a hole. In reality it is just a hole, but it's not usually thought of as just a hole.

[bigtim666]

I wandered 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 stretched 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.

-- William Wordsworth



only poem i ever liked

[keithy_19]

Wordsworth is pretty great.

[Sue_Bender]

Yes.

[Suspect Chin]

I only like iambic pentameter.

[FezPaul]

It's easy to grin when your ship comes in
And you've got the stock market beat
But the man worthwhile
Is the man who can smile
When his shorts are too tight in the seat

[BlackSpider]

Writing it, yes.
Reading it, no...

[Marc with a c]

Writing it, yes.
Reading it, no...

kind of like your posts huh mr. clean?

[BlackSpider]

kind of like your posts huh mr. clean?

Mr. Clean.
I know you can do better than that...

[west milly Tom]

poetry is like a joke, if you get the timing wrong the whole thing doesen't work

-langston huges

[razorboy]

From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving,
Whatever gods may be,
That no life lives for ever,
That dead men rise up never,
That even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea.

[west milly Tom]

I wandered 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 stretched 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.

-- William Wordsworth



only poem i ever liked

actually really good. thanks for showing me a poem I enjoyed its been years since I read one.

[west milly Tom]

If stranded on a desert island, the two books I would want are the Bible and The Waste Land by TS Eliot

Keithy, drop a tab of orange sunshine and see what ends come out of the tip of your pencil :wink:

best acid I ever did EVER...geltab :thumbup:

[razorboy]

best acid I ever did EVER...geltab :thumbup:

You don't like grownup LSD?

[west milly Tom]

You don't like grownup LSD?

I stick to adult drugs altogether now.

[Kublakhan61]

If stranded on a desert island, the two books I would want are the Bible and The Waste Land by TS Eliot


That's what I was gonna say only change The Bible to Don Quixote. The Waste Land is a monster of literary achievement.

I'd also add Ferlinghetti, John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, Billy Collins, Wallace Stevens, Adrianne Rich Walt Whitman (Whitman is fucking monster, as well, I Sing the Body Electric - yes, please) and many more to the list of excellent poets. Coleridge is where I took Kublakhan from...

Keithy, I'm glad to hear you've come around on poetry. Not anyone can write it. You have know the rules of the game in order to live freely within it - to many people never bother to learn the rules and so, many people are not actually writing poetry.

[CountryBob]

Only if it is written into music. Stupid poems just plain bore me.