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¿Question #1350?
haraggan: Do you have a favorite poet and/or poem?

ocdspectrum: You by D.H. Lawrence.
Arboretum: Isaac Rosenberg and Rainer Maria Rilke, if I'm allowed to name ttwo.
Szarak: The Raven by E.A. Poe
spacerx: Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
ricardofo: Gonçalves Dias - Minha terra tem palmeiras, Onde canta o Sabiá; As aves, que aqui gorjeiam, Não gorjeiam como lá. Nosso céu tem mais estrelas, Nossas várzeas têm mais flores, Nossos bosques têm mais vida, Nossa vida mais amores. Translation: My land has palm trees, Where sings Sabia; The birds that sing here, Do not sing like there.   Our sky has more stars, Our meadows have more flowers, Our forests have more life Our life more love. (this is a poem made by Gonçalves Dias in Europe. He was missing Brazil. After a short stay in France, he decided to return to Brazil in 1864, in the ship "Ville de Boulogne". However, the ship was wrecked on the shores of Guimarães, Maranhão. All the passengers but Dias survived the incident.) read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gon%C3%A7alves_Dias. You can see the entire poem and translation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%C3%A7%C3%A3o_do_ex%C3%ADlio
vandemonium: Yes.
Felimid: Just about any poem by Emily Bronte suits me fine.
Hendal: The Air Out Side It Burns my Eyes, I rip the out and stop the burning --- Jim Morrison
mrorwell: No
pwilz: I'm not a really sophisticated type of poetry/fiction person. I like Carl Sandburg. I don't know if I have a favorite poem, though. I guess I kind of like 'Howl' but that's just me being an ass.
jessitron: I love Robert Browning's Summum Bonum
daveroswell: not really, ALthough I did go to Va. tech and dig reading Nikki Giovanni's stuff from time to time
rhackler: No.
Polgara: ‘ Marc groet ’ s morgens de dingen’
Numskull: Homer/The Odyssey. It's structured like a novel, but it's still technically a poem.
Inwardpanic: yes
Nazhuret: no
TheArchAngel: no
DHEK: No to either.
POvidiusNaso: Homer's Iliad.
Capitaine Grappin: Yes, A même l'avis
andsoerinsaid: Langston Hughes
Leo-T: E. A. Poe - The Raven
ufemism: "Good Dog Nigel" by John Lennon
HScottBuck: Nope
cln777: Charge of the Light Brigade
Dorque: Yup.
Nekura: No
Helenoftroy: Damn, you beat me to it. I just asked this question. But my favorite poets are: Emily Dickinson and T.S. Elliot. My favorite poems are: The Goblin Market, J.Alfred Prufrock, Wasteland. . . I could go on and on.
Dave: In general, I do not enjoy poetry, but I do like Robert Frost and Sylvia Plath.
jasta6: no.................
brainrob: Yes
Chris Page: Ogden Nash.
Grizzley91: Walk Whitman: "I loafe and invite my soul . . ."
Ender667: Shel Silverstein
LemonyFresh: No
rawdawg: no
puffinslayer: WB Yeats - The Hosting of the Sidhe - specifically the part about "we come between him and the hope of his heart"
_Kael_: no and/or no
pronoblem: poet: Whitman poem: Song of Childhood By Peter Handke
otha62: "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
vetinari7878: "Ozymandias" by Shelley, but my favourite poet is Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Fawkes: Poem: Frosts's "Acquainted with the Night"; Poet: Pablo Neruda
Loquutus: He is not my favorite poet, but 'Lines Written Upon a Cup Formed From a Skull" by Lord Byron is my favorite poem.
sbszine: Dylan Thomas is pretty good.
DaGen: Edgar Allen Poe
[Deleted user]: Robert Burns...
MochaKimono: Twas brillig, and the slithy toves...
Cavedog_pdx: Shel Silverstein
javelin98: Yes! "The Raven", by Poe. Followed by "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", by Coleridge. "Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert Service is another fave.
bacco: Giovanni Pascoli
sourwyrm: not really
heli: Pablo Neruda, Stevie Smith, Robert Graves are some
scriptorum: Sadly, no.
fubar awol: William Carlos Williams
Ravsitar: No
ssmooth: "since feeling is first... who cares about the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you... wholly to be a fool while spring is in the world..." e.e.cummings
AWildEep: Do limricks count?
BaSL: yes no
Lord_Prussian: Ogden Nash
The Unbeliever: 42
mrbeankc: T S Elliot
meshuggener: Once upon a midnight dreary...
mandj2001: Dylan
MisterCranky: Robert Frost, Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Belash: I own own book of Poetry and it's by Leonard Cohen
ValJor: As a rule I don't like poetry but "If" by Rudyard Kipling is a favourite of mine.
Ivan: Poet = Wilfred Owen; Poem = Everyone Sang by Siegfreid Sassoon "http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/7163/"
Admiral Fisher: Lots and lots. I love poetry. See my list. TS Elliot is fav poet.
4wire: no
snoozefest: no
UhhhClem: Tony Harrison, "National Trust."
dictator555: E.E. Cummings
tragicpoet: Robert Frost, though my favorite poem is called "Black Helicopters"
TiNYTimIDFluffYBunnY: owen
EndersGame: Shakespeare is one of my favorites. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter.
thoia: Many of the Poe poems
djlg: No.
dakarp: Maybe James Merrill. Or maybe Shakespeare. Those are the poets I read the most, anyway.
Wintergoblin: T.S. Elliot
GuyHill: im not really into poetry. Some of the ww1 trench poetry (sassoon, owen) made quite an impression on me though
Jatoha: mary oliver
AlorielLelyn: Not particularly
Ryno8: yes... Tim Burton... creepy.
wtrollkin2000: Alfred, Lord Tennyson is my favorite poet. "The Kraken" is my favorite poem of his. (try reading it out loud)
isolated: No.
gnomehome: Dregs
dietevil: Curiosity, not sure who wrote it.
2amp: Shel Silverstein
gashlycrumb: W.B. Yeats
starbug: It's hard to choose one, given the wide variety of styles. I'd say Yeats and Homer.
Eric Haas: No
djflippy: Crispin Hellion Glover
sos1: No - I like many
kennyb: nope....too busy studying rulebooks
JoeCthulhu: no
viogression: No
rochs77: Not really, but I do like a few Edgar Allen Poe poems.
louiseh: W H Auden
jttm: Nope
CortexBomb: I don't dig on the poetry that much...I do like the poem in Alice and Wonderland about the slithy tobes gyring and gimbling...
skelebone: Ozymandias
ynnen: Anything by Poe
Spielfreak: While I appreciate the medium, I have no favorite.
melissa: Dylan Thomas. Probably "Do not go gentle into that good night" but it can vary. (Or 'Melissa' by Bruce Dawe - for obvious reasons)
Blackwind: no
chaddyboy_2000: No.
CDRodeffer: Ulysses