What's your favourite poem?
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A haiku.
My heart aches with pain
When I see you I vomit
Die away from me
10 points if you know where its from.
My heart aches with pain
When I see you I vomit
Die away from me
10 points if you know where its from.
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day.
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Rosetti - Remember
I read this at my father's funeral, I think it sums up all that he'd want me to do.
RIP
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day.
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Rosetti - Remember
I read this at my father's funeral, I think it sums up all that he'd want me to do.
RIP
"Because I could not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson.
I've never been hugely into poetry, which is rather strange when you find out that my older brother is a professional poet.
I've never been hugely into poetry, which is rather strange when you find out that my older brother is a professional poet.
I also was never much into poetry. I've always held a literary grudge against it; I tend to see it as a sort of masturbatory embellishing of language, where the writing becomes so ornate that it obfuscates the intended image or story. But I digress.
I think my favorite is Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer", or at least that's the one I think of whenever I have to sit and crunch data or perform some other tedious task:
Runner up would be Thoreau's "Epitaph on the World." Those that liked "Dulce Et Decorum Est" ought to check out Kipling's "Hymn Before Action."
I think my favorite is Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer", or at least that's the one I think of whenever I have to sit and crunch data or perform some other tedious task:
Random trivia: my dad holds a PhD in IR astronomy. D:
Runner up would be Thoreau's "Epitaph on the World." Those that liked "Dulce Et Decorum Est" ought to check out Kipling's "Hymn Before Action."
Usually I'm not a fan of poetry, but there's always one poem I can never forget. "The House of Judgement" by Oscar Wilde.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems_in_Prose:_The_House_of_Judgement
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems_in_Prose:_The_House_of_Judgement
Fire and Ice
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.
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.
Robert Frost
The Raven has the best meter I'd ever seen.
http://www.heise.de/ix/raven/Literature/Lore/TheRaven.html
September 1srt 1939 by W.H. Auden comes in a close 2nd. It only loses out because of the line "We must love one another or die," which obviously isn't an either or thing.
http://www.poemdujour.com/Sept1.1939.html I can't find annotations for it.
http://www.heise.de/ix/raven/Literature/Lore/TheRaven.html
September 1srt 1939 by W.H. Auden comes in a close 2nd. It only loses out because of the line "We must love one another or die," which obviously isn't an either or thing.
http://www.poemdujour.com/Sept1.1939.html I can't find annotations for it.
hehe, that was a great one.waggmd said:
Though I still believe most poetry is overrated and BS. Most just try to shove words together and then separate them and hopefully someone pulls some marvelous idea out of it. Some don't even try that, some just write to maybe make your eyebrow raise very so slightly.
But the great ones are great nonetheless.
