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Post by feralcat on Feb 6, 2024 15:52:15 GMT
What are you favourite poems? Doesn't necessarily have to be in English. Mine are probably Akhmatova's (Russian she-poet) Requiem (in summary, it is about how she endured "ezhovshina", a term used to describe the time period of Stalin's and Ezhov's repressions) and maybe Eugene Onegin (you know, the one from Pushkin? Although in my opinion, Pushkin was also super talented in prose, I love his The Queen of Spades)
If taking something from English poetry, then probably The Farmer by Margaret E. Sangster and The Sea of Silence by Florence May Alt. Though, I guess reading poetry is easier in my native language which compels me more to Russian poetry, especially the Silver Age.
If you know (or are learning) Russian, here are the links to Anna Akhmatova's Requiem and Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.
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Post by jelly on Feb 6, 2024 20:07:49 GMT
My favorite poem of all time is "Cathedral" by Adam Fitzgerald! It's also coincidentally the only poem I've read by him that I liked? Silly way of things happening! I've had an expert of it ("To write about one thing, you must first write about another[...] You go out for coffee. You come back another person.") in practically all the journals I've used since reading it almost a decade or so ago! I also really like " A Dead Thing That, in Dying, Feeds the Living" by Donika Kelly, the imagery and word use is really lovely to me! Ode to Trucking Company Names That Include Trans by Dri Chiu Tattersfield is also an absolute classic poem to me. It's very fun! A more recent duo of lovely poems I've stumble across is " Having a Coke with You" (Frank O’Hara) and " Having "Having a Coke with You" with You." (Mark Leidner) Very charming poems apart, even more lovely together. I really love the sort of rambling type of prose in both of them and the rhythm of it is real good, I really want to try reading it out loud sometime! :-)
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Post by mrsmoe on Feb 7, 2024 4:28:11 GMT
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Post by eternalpuppetmaster on Feb 12, 2024 16:26:33 GMT
Without poetry i dont think i could have survived English Literature class to be honest. I love annotating and analysing all kinds of poetry but the ones frpm there that stuck with me most would definatly be Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley and war photographer by Carol Ann Duffy. I have read a few poems since but i think those will be my top two for a while.
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Post by Azure on Feb 12, 2024 21:29:36 GMT
I love poetry! Two famous poems that I really love are "Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpi, and "A Primer For the Small Weird Loves" by Richard Siken (which has many individual quotes you may recognize). There's also this unnamed poem from Night in the Woods, which I have dubbed "Boy Billionares" in my mind. "Oh Rascal Children of Gaza" by Khaled Juma is also a deeply haunting piece. (Don't forget to do your daily click!)
But my favorite 'lesser-known' or 'indie', per say, poem, is easily "F*ggot Out of California" by Judas. It made me bawl the first time I read it. It resonates so deeply with me, as a queer person from the deep South.
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