Any Poetry Worth Reading?

[ComradeRed]

I've been browsing through the library, and I came upon some of e.e. cumming's poetry. After reading (skimming) some of his poems, I've come to wonder if there are any poems or poets worth reading?

[Hate Is Art]

Phillip Larkin, TS Elliot, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Robert Browning ST Coleridge, Tony Harrison.

Lot's of poets worth reading. Try and find a poetry anthology, I got one called "History of Poetry from the English Language 1250 to 1970"

Well worth getting something along those lines.

This is some of my poetry if your interested.

http://this-be-the-verse.blogspot.com/

[bed_of_nails]

English translations of Catullus. The only poetry worth reading (besides mine.)

[SanPatricio'sSoul]

Yeah, unfortunately poetry is an artform that has been polluted by 13 year old self-pitying, empty, materialistic, pseudo-jaded tripe about how their depressed because magazines tell them to be anorexic while millions of people starve by circumstance.

[Monty Cantsin]

we should burn all of ST Coleridge works! hate that #$#&

"Poet is Priest
Money has reckoned the soul of Amercia"

Allen Ginsberg- from "Death to Van Gogh's Ear!"

[bcbm]

Arthur Rimbaud.

[Vladislav]

Comrade Digital Nirvana your poetry is very good.

[Sir Aunty Christ]

I've always liked Gil Scott-Heron and Leonard Cohen for modern poetry. I agree with Monty Cantsin about Coleridge and you shouuld probably give Byron and Shelley a whirl.

[Hate Is Art]

The Ancient Mariner? It's amazing. Don't insult him.

Completly forgot about Ginsberg, try working yr way through howl, it's worth it. Most American poetry isn't that great though.

Thank you Vladislav? Any criticisms?

xx

[Comrade Voyager]

T.S. Eliot and Charles Bukowski are my personal favorites.

[Hate Is Art]

:wub: Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock

[RedskinUltraRMC]

Pablo Neruda (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Neruda)

[Qwerty Dvorak]

My favourite poet is Sylvia Plath (http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/). What I love about her is that she was depressed before it was cool ;) seriously though, some of her stuff is amazing.

My personal favourite poems (by her) are A Better Resurrection (http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/better.html), Elm (http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/elm.html) and Edge (http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/edge.html).

At least, they are the first three that come to mind, although even now more and more of her poems are coming to mind, and I have too many favourites to name...

Ah well, best to just read it all :)

[Paradox]

Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2006, 12:25 AM
Pablo Neruda (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Neruda)
Yes!

I've been wanting to get this particular book which is a collection of his poems for quite some time now. I got some money, but unfortunately, it is wiser for me to save it right now than to buy the book.

[Hate Is Art]

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.

P. Larkin

Fav Poem.

[poetofrageX]

Langston Hughes. I found an anthology of all his poetry, it's all great, but i love his leftist one(he's got a bunch.) there's one called "Ode to a Starving Child", and another called "Ballad of Lenin's Tomb" that are really friggin great.

btw, he's really good at love poems, for all my fellow hopeless romantics out there.

[encephalon]

I've collected some more radical poetry here (http://www2.redapollo.org/content/category/6/23/35/), but it's far from complete. If anyone has anything else to add, you can add it on your own via a WYSIWYG editor.

Some of the writers include Bertold Brecht, Otto Rene Castillo, Langston Hughes, William Blake, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton.. there are a couple others. There are many more I want to include, but it's rather time consuming to find those poems and then transcribe them. It's a slow process, regardless.

[encephalon]

Here's one by Brecht titled "Questions from a worker who reads?" A lot of Brecht's stuff is pretty decent.

-=-=-

Who built Thebes of the 7 gates?
In the books you will read the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?

And Babylon, many times demolished,
Who raised it up so many times?

In what houses of gold glittering Lima did its builders live?
Where, the evening that the Great Wall of China was finished, did the masons go?

Great Rome is full of triumphal arches.
Who erected them?

Over whom did the Caesars triumph?
Had Byzantium, much praised in song, only palaces for its inhabitants?

Even in fabled Atlantis, the night that the ocean engulfed it,
The drowning still cried out for their slaves.

The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone?

Caesar defeated the Gauls.
Did he not even have a cook with him?

Philip of Spain wept when his armada went down.
Was he the only one to weep?

Frederick the 2nd won the 7 Years War.
Who else won it?

Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors?

Every 10 years a great man.
Who paid the bill?

So many reports.

So many questions.

[Hate Is Art]

I like Brechy, especially his stuff on Theatrical Alienation,

Poem I wrote Today, 3rd part of some poems I've been trying to write, one of them "A Modern Way of Living" is posted in the link above, I'll post the other "A Modern Way Of Falling In Love" if anyone would like to read it: Criticism would be welcome

The Modern World
all food comes in boxes
and all money is plastic
we turned dead trees
into tires and sunglasses
and living trees
into womens magazines
instruction manuals
(trying to work on this last line)

we will fill our houses with things we don't need
and our heads with religion and animosity
and for all our emotions we rely on tv
and everything we see

man puts a fence around a piece of land
he sells happiness in packs of twenty
and shudders when a homeless man reaches out a hand
and takes cocaine to feel a little less empty

and when I tryed to touch my existance
it is nothing
and everynight I go to sleep with a head full of dreams
about how the world should be
and wake up crying
cos its still the same
and I am still me

[ComradeRed]

What about comical poetry?

The limerick packs laughs anatomical
Into space that is quite economical
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.

:lol:

I'd prefer something more light and witty such as that.

[ItalianCommie]

Do you know what really lifts up my morale as a communist? Pablo Neruda, Bertolt Brecht, and Pierpaolo Pasolini.

Even better the Soviet poets: Mayakovsky, Yesenin, Trotzky, Mandelshtam, Pasternak, Yevtushenko....

Lies

"Telling lies to the young is wrong.
Proving to them that lies are true is wrong.
Telling them that God is in his heaven
and all's well with the world is wrong.
The young know what you mean. The young are people.
Tell them the difficulties can't be counted,
and let them see not only what will be
but see with clarity these present times.
Say obstacles exist they must encounter
sorrow happens, hardship happens.
The hell with it. Who never knew
the price of happiness will not be happy.
Forgive no error you recognize,
it will repeat itself, increase,
and afterwards our pupils will not forgive in what we forgave."

-Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtuschenko

Not bad, huh?

[Orange Juche]

Arthur Rimbaud. His poetry is incredible.

[Pink Moon]

Anything Leonard Cohen is worth reading.

[Iroquois Xavier]

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