Who areyour favorite poets?

@rhettaa (213)
United States
April 29, 2008 8:50am CST
I've been trying to decide who my favorite poet is, and I can't narrow it down to one. I love Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, e.e. cummings, W.B. Yeats, and Walt Whitman. Those are probably my top five. What poets do you like, if any?
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Breath
@Breath (1297)
• United States
29 Apr 08
Trying to pick a favorite poet is like trying to pick a favorite feeling...I love Robert Frost...My top favrotie would be Edgar Allan Poe..I love his twist into the darker paths...
rhettaa
@rhettaa (213)
• United States
30 Apr 08
I love Poe too! My father used to lull me to sleep when I was three or four by reciting The Raven to me. I requested it in place of fairy stories! One of my earliest memories is of laying with my head on his shoulder listening to him recite, "Ah distinctly I remember, It was in the bleak December.."
MsTickle
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
3 May 08
I like Wordsworth and I prefer I guess contemporary poets like our own Australian Banjo Paterson and Nan Witcomb whose books Thoughts of Nanushka have stirred my soul whenever I read them. Thoughts of Nanushka is her collection of poetry VolI - VI. For a sample of her work:http://users.senet.com.au/~nanushka/nan2.htm
kalav56
@kalav56 (11464)
• India
29 Apr 08
I love the nature poems of Wordsworth .They are the easiest and his love for nature spills through. Whenever I see some marvel of nature , my spontaneous reaction would only be to think of him and his spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. 'No wonder he was like that' would be my reaction. I love Keats for his imagery and description and the same is the case with Shelley. I love Milton for his characterisation and style and philosophy. Shakespeare, though a dramatist in the strict sense is according to me a poet and he gets my first vote .His profoundness of thought is something that has a timeless appeal to me.