Who is your favourite poet?

JSK 252

It has to be Longley for me!

ironictoaster

Adrienne Rich

Larkin or Longley

Fad

TBH I hate all of them equally

Piste

Bishop or Longley.


But oh how I hate Larkin.

Shanotheslayer

John Montague

Longely:)

bythewoods

Derek Walcott

Out of the ones I've done, I love Mahon.

Bishop's amazing too, but ... Mahon wins.

PurpleFistMixer

Derek Walcott

Yeah Mahon is deadly, I was so happy he came up last year. My class refused to do Ecclesiastes but I loved that poem, so I wrote about it anyway. >.>

ReacherCreature

Derek Mahon

Montague.

SarcasticFairy

Poetry and I don't generally get along, but if I had to choose a poet, it would be Elizabeth Bishop... Mainly because because she's pretty simple. I hated John Keats

Dante

Derek Walcott

I hate all of them but if i had to choose one it'd be Mahon...hes got some alright poems.

I HATE Bishop....so boring, anyone could write better stuff then that.

phasers

Adrienne Rich

Phillip Larkin, what a legend

Fad

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

Yeah Mahon is deadly, I was so happy he came up last year. My class refused to do Ecclesiastes but I loved that poem, so I wrote about it anyway. >.>

WHAT! They refused it? Its one of the few poems on the course I liked, that and First Death In Nova Scotia (And even then it was because I liked a band who where then called FDINS then the fúckers dropped the INS)

cmcsoft

It's John Keats for me, I thought he was very good

B0X

John Montague

Pretentious, self loathi...

Oh hello, i'm Box, i hate poetry.

BlindedByGInge

Philip Larkin

I agree about John Keats, he is very likely to come up this year aswell. The Odes are very similar so you have to avoid repeating yourself, but apart from that they are easy once you understand them, all that is left is to crap out the same old bs and ur on ur way to a B!!:D

PurpleFistMixer

Derek Walcott

Fad wrote: »

WHAT! They refused it? Its one of the few poems on the course I liked, that and First Death In Nova Scotia (And even then it was because I liked a band who where then called FDINS then the fúckers dropped the INS)

"It was too confusing".
That's also why we didn't do Donne, who is apparently fantastic.

Fad

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

"It was too confusing".

From a guy who doesnt like/get poetry I managed pretty ok with it

LivingDeadGirl

Philip Larkin

Keats definitely

Gloom

Philip Larkin

I really liked Donne last year.

I like most of them actually.

zonEEE

Derek Mahon

I don't know how anyone can like bishop

KnockHoops

strongr im not a big fan of her poetry but im praying she comes up next june so easy to discuss her poetry for me due to her upbringing and her other issues she discusses in her poetry, she is starting to grow on me 18 months after first studying her

JSK 252

John Montague

My predictions for June:

Longley
Bishop
Keats
Walcott

Fringe

I quite liked Mahon when I was doing poetry and was motivated to do English. I'd like Larkin too but my motivation has dropped completely now since I have lost all faith in it.

GA361

Adrienne Rich

Larkin for me :) :( :l:confused: :O:eek: ;)

I HATE Bishop's poetry.
I found Rich's way more interesting and easy to write about.

unknown13

John Montague

Longley

Animo

I don't really like any poetry to be quite honest but one poem I do like is 'The Cage' by John Montague. But thats just cos it reminds me of Dexter:D

macroman

John Montague

Longley for me - that beard is just god like. He also makes his poetry easy to follow for those easily distracted beings...unlike that Keats fellow.

JSK 252

John Montague

Longley is leading the pack.......

Jay P

Bishop is class. Don't get me started on Rich though.... *shudder*
Longley and Mahon are good too

andyman

Derek Walcott

Who I'll think will come up in June

Bishop
Walcott
Keats
Montague

Derek Mahon's my favourite though. So easy. I'd be delighted if Bishop, Montague or Longley came up though.

p1akuw47h5r3it

Hate poetry so much.... E.B is real easy to write about