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Poetry
Jul 23, 2010 14:00:09 GMT -6
Post by Jafar on Jul 23, 2010 14:00:09 GMT -6
Seeing as how there is a thread about books, I thought one about poetry would be a good idea. Basically, mention whatever poems are your favourite, if any are, and provide a link if you wish. My personal favourites: Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas For some reason, I fell in love with this poem the first time I read it, five years ago. The Stolen Child by William Butler Yeats I did a performance of this poem for my Grade 12 English class, with gestures such as spontaneous leaping and drastic changes in tone. I had to analyze both of the above in high school, but I found doing that was easy because I like both so much. So, does anyone else here have a poem or two or more which they consider personally memorable?
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Jul 23, 2010 16:06:44 GMT -6
Post by Mucho The Soybean Lover on Jul 23, 2010 16:06:44 GMT -6
Not a big poetry fan, but I like this haiku: Haikus are easy but sometimes they don't make sense refrigerator
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Jul 23, 2010 16:26:30 GMT -6
Post by Cabi.net on Jul 23, 2010 16:26:30 GMT -6
I'm not a big poetry fan but I am quite partial to Emily Dickinson's works. We have to learn somewhere around 36 poems for when I finish school. Most of them are old Irish poets like Yeats and I don't really like those poems. Yeats himself goes on far too much (In my opinion) about loving a woman named Maude Gonne (I think that is her) and then in his later years he goes on about how being old is terrible. Now I understand that some people like that, but I'm a 16 year old student. I can't relate to that stuff.
I have a worse problem with the poetry of a woman (whos name escapes me at the moment) she goes on and on about how being infertile is like people dying in a famine. Now come on. She is talking about the death of 4 million and the emmigration of 2 is as bad as learning that you can't have children. Now I understand that this may hit you as a shock, but it is nowhere as bad as 4 MILLION DYING.
But yeah, I like the poetry of Emily Dickinson mainly because it is at such a contrast to all the other poetry I have read. In one poem she goes on about the last moments before a person dies and in the next she is writing about getting drunk in heaven as the angels watch. It's just so mad it is good.
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Jul 23, 2010 16:34:51 GMT -6
Post by Jafar on Jul 23, 2010 16:34:51 GMT -6
I'm not a big poetry fan but I am quite partial to Emily Dickinson's works. We have to learn somewhere around 36 poems for when I finish school. Most of them are old Irish poets like Yeats and I don't really like those poems. Yeats himself goes on far too much (In my opinion) about loving a woman named Maude Gonne (I think that is her) and then in his later years he goes on about how being old is terrible. Now I understand that some people like that, but I'm a 16 year old student. I can't relate to that stuff. I agree that most of Yeat's work is painful to read, but "The Stolen Child" is appealing, in my opinion. It talks about the lures of nature on a child, but also the discomforts of running away and living in the wild, and the comforts of home life. I found that I could relate to the lure of nature part, and it seems musical. Yeats is most famous for "The Second Coming", but I am not much a fan of that poem. An interesting poem is T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men". My idealism prevents me from liking it that much, but I know a lot of people my age who do like it. The mockery of the Lord's prayer and "All Around the Mulberry Bush" brought a chuckle to me.
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Poetry
Jul 23, 2010 16:43:16 GMT -6
Post by Cabi.net on Jul 23, 2010 16:43:16 GMT -6
I'm not a big poetry fan but I am quite partial to Emily Dickinson's works. We have to learn somewhere around 36 poems for when I finish school. Most of them are old Irish poets like Yeats and I don't really like those poems. Yeats himself goes on far too much (In my opinion) about loving a woman named Maude Gonne (I think that is her) and then in his later years he goes on about how being old is terrible. Now I understand that some people like that, but I'm a 16 year old student. I can't relate to that stuff. I agree that most of Yeat's work is painful to read, but "The Stolen Child" is appealing, in my opinion. It talks about the lures of nature on a child, but also the discomforts of running away and living in the wild, and the comforts of home life. I found that I could relate to the lure of nature part, and it seems musical. Yeats is most famous for "The Second Coming", but I am not much a fan of that poem.. I was supposed to add this but I forgot. I don't dislike Yeats. He was a very important man when Ireland was first granted independance. I may not like him for his poetry but I like him because he is an important figure in Irish history.
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Jul 29, 2010 20:47:52 GMT -6
Post by TigerKiro on Jul 29, 2010 20:47:52 GMT -6
I don't like Haikus Haikus are really stupid I don't see their point
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Jul 29, 2010 22:14:18 GMT -6
Post by Gooman on Jul 29, 2010 22:14:18 GMT -6
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Sept 9, 2010 12:12:55 GMT -6
Post by Gooman on Sept 9, 2010 12:12:55 GMT -6
*bump*
I had to write a poem for English today and had to do it in a certain pattern. Can you figure it out? Oh, and I'd appreciate some feedback on the poem itself.
"Cruising" Start End What's this? Something new! The way we get there; The journey's importance revealed. Ignored by many, "We need to get there, who cares how?" The fools believe that.
Radio Blasting Born To Run The wind blowing by our Mustang Having a good time Highway stretching out before us The engine growling, keeping us awake through the night Pulling Eighty, dust cloud trailing Headlights brighten the night This is what it is all about
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Sept 9, 2010 12:14:57 GMT -6
Post by SeriousJupiter on Sept 9, 2010 12:14:57 GMT -6
Bravo, Gooman. Bravo. Touching poetry.
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Sept 9, 2010 12:18:49 GMT -6
Post by Jafar on Sept 9, 2010 12:18:49 GMT -6
I like the poem, Gooman, but I can't get the pattern, though I did notice that at one point, each line had one more syllable than the line above it, but this didn't hold for the whole poem.
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Sept 9, 2010 12:23:16 GMT -6
Post by Gooman on Sept 9, 2010 12:23:16 GMT -6
Close, it does have to do with the Syllables. I'll give you a hint, I was expecting to hear about this pattern in Math class before English class. Try listing out the syllable counts and trying to find something.
Edit: Oh yeah, and thanks for liking it ;D
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Sept 9, 2010 12:24:23 GMT -6
Post by Jafar on Sept 9, 2010 12:24:23 GMT -6
Fibbonaci (sp.) numbers? At least for the first stanza.
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Sept 9, 2010 12:26:32 GMT -6
Post by Gooman on Sept 9, 2010 12:26:32 GMT -6
Yeah, it's the Fibonacci Sequence, going up and down. It holds through the poem, just going up and down as doing the straight sequence would make it ridiculously long.
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Sept 15, 2010 18:46:16 GMT -6
Post by Gooman on Sept 15, 2010 18:46:16 GMT -6
Another poem for school.
There once was a man in a war Who fought till his muscles were sore He never backed down Until he reached the crown Where his courage would be tested once more.
He fought every one the King's Men All the way to the King's Den They drew their swords Steel as cold as Finland's Fjords With one deft blow, the Kingdom was Free Thanks to one Knight's Bravery
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