Poetry

[Levitas1234]

I think this is the first ever poetry thread on the escapist.

Does the escapist like poetry or have any association? I'm not much of a poet myself but i do enjoy the writings of Allen Poe (not that i regularly read poetry) but if i do come across reading poetry i do appreciate its value.
I find shit by edgar allen poe bad ass and brutal.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Personally? I can't stand poetry. Brings out the worst in me. I can't make poetry, and I cannot fathom the deeper meanings hidden in the words.
It just appears as a bunch of nonsense on the page, to me.
Meaningless... meaningless...

[small]I doubt it is the first thread about poetry... So many threads have been made, chances are that it has been made in the past... but long enough ago to have been lost...[/small]

 

[Layz92]

I've never really read poetry per se but some of the stuff I've checked out by Oscar Wilde is pretty good (not very original but whatever)

 

[RyQ_TMC]

There is some stuff - mostly comical - which is technically poetry, but avoids deeper meanings. I like that, and sometimes I write a bit or two for my personal amusement.

But the "true" poetry, with its hidden meanings and stuff? Could never stand it. The way I see it, if you don't feel the meaning right away and instead have to spend hours meditating over sociopolitical context and author's biographical details, it's just not worth it. Probably only made worse by literature classes back in school, where the teacher or some random academic scholar declared one of the possible meanings as canon, so you had to get not only into the poet's mind, but to the other guy's as well.

 

[Antigone]

I have rather eclectic taste in poetry: Ovid, EE Cummings, Wilde, Shel Silverstein, Emily Dickinson, and of course the Bard....

 

[DSEZ]

i got a notebook full of poetry

 

[El Poncho]

There has been a lot of threads on poetry.

I don't go looking for poetry but if someone sends me a poem I will read it.

 

[DuplicateValue]

I like a bit of poetry occasionally. I particularly like Tolkien's (seriously, read Shadow Bride).
I recently bought "Spirits of the Dead" by Edgar Allen Poe, so that should be interesting.

I did write one poem, but it doesn't really rhyme (I prefer poems that don't rhyme). It's around here on a past thread somewhere.

 

[Slash Dementia]

Dante Alighieri and William Shakespeare bring out the best of me. They've influenced my writing so much over the past few months, although I wish I could write in rhymes...

I've never really read much other poetry, but I'm willing to try some suggestions.

 

[Mr Wednesday]

I think this is the first ever poetry thread on the escapist.

Nope.

Been about fifteen shmillion.

 

[nick n stuff]

i like poetry that can be understood. some stuff i can read about 10 times and just think 'what the fuck was that all about'.

 

[LiquidGrape]

I absolutely adore the works of Dickinson, Sappho and Baudelaire.
A contemporary favourite is Nicole Blackman, who occasionally collaborates with Alan Wilder on his solo-project Recoil.

 

[Latinidiot]

Dante Alighieri and William Shakespeare bring out the best of me. They've influenced my writing so much over the past few months, although I wish I could write in rhymes...

I've never really read much other poetry, but I'm willing to try some suggestions.

Commedia Divina is a masterpiece. I read it before I heard about the game, and it was most interesting.

I barely read any poetry, but there are some Dutch ones that are quite literal, and just describe a moment, or event in such rhyming precision, with perfect metrum and everything, that you can't help to be touched by it. also, Ovidius made some nice poems.