poets

[Elanor]

what are you entmooters' favorite poets? Here are some of mine, in no particular order:

Shakespeare
Lewis Carroll
Rudyard Kipling
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Walt Whitman
Shel Silverstein
Dr. Seuss
Edward A Robinson
Edgar Allen Poe
James T Fields
Janice Kapp Perry

I have more, but that's my list for now.

[Idril Celebrindal]

Kipling
Poe
Shakespeare
Tolkien
T S Eliot

[Miralys]

Poe
Dr. Seuss
Javan
Shakespeare
Gibran

[Fat middle]

in no particular order:
Shakespeare
W.B. Yeats
T.S. Eliot
only a few poems from Walt Whitman

paish poets:
San Juan de la Cruz
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Antonio Machado

[Niffiwan]

Huh..?

How is shakespeare a poet? Sure, in some of the scenes the lines use poetry, but by far not in all.

[Fat middle]

well, he wrote two large poems: The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis and a marvellous series of 154 wonderful sonnets among other less important poems...

[merry linger]

Miralys i love your quote

in his hey day Robert Plant was indeed a fine lyricist and drew inspiration from Tolkien's work...indeed Mordor is mentioned in the song "Ramble On" and so many of Zeppelin's songs have a Fantasy/medieval (for want of a better term) theme running through them...

No quarter
immigrant song
battle of evermore

Indeed many of our musical icons were tremendous poets in their own right - such as jim morrison, Lou reed and John Cale from the Velvet Underground, even Jimi Hendrix i believe dosn't receive the recognition he deserves for his lyrics. Also Kurt Cobain had an amazing way with words, and more recently zac de la rocha from rage against the machine.

My personal favorite is Ian Curtis from Joy Division

As far as more traditional forms of poetry goes, T.S Eliot (though he bewildered me somewhat), and Sylvia Plath certainly opened my eyes to the power of the spoken word...

[IronParrot]

A short list...

J.R.R. Tolkien
Lewis Carroll
Ezra Pound
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lennon/McCartney
Paul Simon
Dr. Seuss

... and what's with the oh-so-conspicuous omission of Robert W. Service in all your above posts?

[webwizard333]

So Tolkien is considered a poet. . . I personally really enjoyed the song from the Hobbit sung by the dwarves in Bilbo's hobbit hole.

[Sakata]

I like Robert Frost -is that his name? he wrote the cremation of Sam Magee (no, not Sam Gamgee :) ) it goes like this


There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold
The artic trails have there secret tails that would make your blood run cold.
The northern lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see,
Was the night on the marge of lake la barge, I cremated sam magee...
It is really long, and really cool poem

[IronParrot]

That was Robert Service, not Robert Frost.

[ringbearer]

Poe (The Raven has to be my favorite poem!)
Peter Gabriel(check out his lyrics)
Shel Silverstein

...many more!:D

[galadriel]

TS Eliot
Shel Silverstein :)
Poe
Blake
Robert Frost
some Blake, some DH Lawrence
Tennyson
Li Qingzhao (a Chinese poet from the Song dynasty, find out more about here: http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/pages/reference/tzusongs.html)

[Sakata]

Originally posted by IronParrot
That was Robert Service, not Robert Frost.

thanks, knew it was Robert soming...