Schmo-etry!

[Romero&Juliet]

Whatta name, eh?!?

Who are your favorite poets and what does their work mean to you?

I got into Arthur Rimbaud last year after I had to write an essay on him for french class.. I literally spent months trying to figure out alot of his stuff and get into his head..("Les Poetes A Sept ans" will always be my favorite..)
most of his work was written whille he was seventeen.. That's right.. Its angsty, sardonic, irresponsible poetry.. but when I read it, I feel like he's speaking to my entire genoration. All of us spoiled little brats who want to get everything that we possibly can get out of life. Telling us To "rise up, and loot after the fires." It's still exciting to know that we're not the first set of kids to think like that thouugh.. hrmm.. or mabye its insulting..


Stephane Mallarme (another french symbolist!) has been getting me HIGH lately.. lol.

how about you guys?

[RavenBlade]

Edgar Allen Poe, is my favorite poet, his poems seem
to speak to the darker side of my reflection.

Then there is Robert Frost, whose poem
Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening,
which is filled to the brim with lush landscapes,
that feed my need to be in the forest during winter.
It makes me feel human, that poem.
How we should keep our promises, and fight off
the grip of sleep, till they are fullfilled.

"But I have promises to keep, and Miles to go before I sleep,
and miles to go, before I sleep."

And of course, the true love poem, called Sonnet XLIII,
by Elizabeth Barret Browning.
The only poem I know that is about how much a person
can really, and I mean really Love someone so much.

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace."

Raven

Btw, love that play on words Schmo-etry!

[James Logan]

Guys, those two poets are the exact ones I wanted to talk about. Rimbaud is a fantastic poet, maybe the best ever, and Edgar Allan Poe is a great one too.

But overall, I think France has tons of great poets. La Fontaine, Rimbaud (as we already said), Verlaine, Victor Hugo, Malarmé, and many others...

[bowieee]

Give me Bukowski any day or night. His stuff may be raunchy but their are literary gems hidden in his poetry of drunken bar fights and societies dark underbelly.

[Jason Voorhees]

Schmoe-etry.. LOL.

Poe: wonderful poet. I've only recently developed an interest in poetry, so unfortunately, I'm not familiar with all the paragons yet...