Hi guys how about we all share our favorite poems. No need to say why you like it or anything. Feel free to if you want, if not just share the poem. Invictus by William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find me, unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
Fire and Ice - Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. I can't really think of anything else right now, but there's probably more
I've got multiple favorite poems, most of which are too long for one post, so I'll just list them: If by Rudyard Kipling Howl by Alan Ginsberg The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by T S Eliot La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats In Real Time by Agha Shahid Ali My Last Duchess by Robert Browning The Stolen Child by William Butler Yeats Vespers by A A Milne
Basic for an English major, but: This Is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold
Macavity the Mystery Cat by T S Eliot Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw— For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law. He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: For when they reach the scene of crime—Macavity's not there! Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity. His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare, And when you reach the scene of crime—Macavity's not there! You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air— But I tell you once and once again, Macavity's not there! Whole poem here
"The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot The whole poem is a bit long, so here's a short excerpt from the end of it. "Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper" Here's the entire poem http://allpoetry.com/The-Hollow-Men
This is from my favourite TV show called The 100. I'm not exactly sure, if it's a poem or a quote, but I'll put it here anyway, cause I love it. In peace may you leave the shore. In love may you find the next. Save passage on your travels, until our final journey to the ground. May we meet again.
I've got too many fav poems to write here, so I'll just put a few in a list, in no particular order. Café Royal, by Carol Ann Duffy, The Bluebird, by Charles Bukowski, Cuerpo de Mujer, by Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII, by Pablo Neruda, Sonnet CXVI, by William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII, by William Shakespeare.
I'm really in love with this poem by Shane McCrae called 'The Pillar Was a Man He Had Been Stretched So Long and Thin'. I'd be interested to hear anyone's opinions on it or what they think it might be about. It's a tad long to post here, so I'll just give you guys the link. The Pillar Was a Man He Had Been Stretched So Long and Thin
Grade 7, I made a deal with my teacher, if I could recite(from memory) the whole thing after the 4 weeks we were doing poetry, that was the only one I had to do, everyone else had to do 2 a week. I stumbled once but nailed the whole dam thing and it is long, will never forget the last few parts.
I'm also an English Bachelor! XD So I have a list of poems I like, but this is my absolute favourite. "anyone lived in a pretty how town" by ee cummings.
