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Yes Camilla Send a noteboard - 23/03/2010 08:37:55 PM
and that is what most people get caught up in, but if you look behind that there is some excellent poetry. Not that the use of ... colourful words? ... in itself does not have an effect.
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Poetry: care to recommend me some? Rebekah - 23/03/2010 06:57:49 PM 1129 Views
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester? Camilla - 23/03/2010 07:04:39 PM 957 Views
Re: Rebekah is not prepubescent. Ergo, no. *NM* Danae al'Thor - 23/03/2010 08:06:33 PM 413 Views
Hey. Rochester is actually quite good *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:17:50 PM 392 Views
And amazingly explicit. *NM* Legolas - 23/03/2010 08:35:13 PM 404 Views
Yes Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:37:55 PM 973 Views
That has to be the best (if, admittedly, only) poem on premature ejaculation I've ever read. Legolas - 23/03/2010 08:52:12 PM 866 Views
Apparently it was quite fashionable to write them during the Restoration Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:56:31 PM 800 Views
My favourite poet in English is a relatively unknown fellow called James Elroy Flecker. Legolas - 23/03/2010 07:11:03 PM 1275 Views
Baudelaire? Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:42:42 PM 894 Views
What languages do you speak? Tom - 23/03/2010 08:51:18 PM 882 Views
Some Spanish and German Rebekah - 23/03/2010 08:57:59 PM 902 Views
Read Heine if you read German Tom - 23/03/2010 09:01:54 PM 927 Views
Poe Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:46:56 PM 847 Views
Pablo Neruda? *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 09:11:26 PM 425 Views
Borges! Legolas - 23/03/2010 09:12:06 PM 869 Views
Re: Borges! Camilla - 23/03/2010 09:14:37 PM 838 Views
Re: Very tedious poetry. Danae al'Thor - 24/03/2010 12:27:04 AM 909 Views
This is why I will never recommend А́нна Ахма́това/ Anna Akhmatova to anyone who The Shrike - 24/03/2010 04:16:07 PM 956 Views
Heine is very lyrical, though. Tom - 24/03/2010 06:59:58 PM 830 Views
In their original tongues... Larry - 23/03/2010 09:52:32 PM 943 Views
Anything Byron gets my vote, Don Juan in particular. *NM* RandAllThor - 23/03/2010 10:32:32 PM 385 Views
Emily Dickinson? *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:37:19 PM 400 Views
Blake? Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:39:21 PM 805 Views
I loathe her *NM* MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 04:41:57 AM 413 Views
...why? *NM* Camilla - 24/03/2010 08:06:39 AM 449 Views
Re: ...why? MalkierKnight - 25/03/2010 04:48:48 AM 864 Views
Re: ...why? Camilla - 25/03/2010 07:56:02 AM 897 Views
Ah, the certainty of youth! Larry - 25/03/2010 08:02:32 AM 899 Views
Keats MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 04:41:38 AM 914 Views
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot. The Shrike - 24/03/2010 04:13:54 PM 1108 Views
it is a good one Camilla - 24/03/2010 08:22:46 PM 897 Views
I detest cats. I am a total dog person. *NM* The Shrike - 24/03/2010 10:19:26 PM 388 Views
heh. for some reason I always thought it'd be the opposite LadyLorraine - 25/03/2010 12:10:55 PM 858 Views
Re: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot. MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 11:25:51 PM 949 Views
Hopkins. Elaine - 24/03/2010 04:43:08 PM 914 Views
Edgar Lee Master LadyLorraine - 24/03/2010 08:03:49 PM 961 Views
Sylvia Plath. Novo - 24/03/2010 11:11:27 PM 959 Views
Re: Poetry: care to recommend me some? Aeryn - 25/03/2010 03:29:57 AM 1079 Views
Unsurprisingly, I like simple poetry. nossy - 25/03/2010 03:52:11 AM 876 Views
e e cummings and Poe are two of my favorites *NM* damookster - 26/03/2010 04:13:13 AM 409 Views
Symborska. Spriteling - 26/03/2010 12:24:50 PM 1062 Views
I read a couple of Edward Thomas poems recently that I really liked snoopcester - 26/03/2010 03:14:31 PM 959 Views
Thanks, all, for your recommendations. Rebekah - 27/03/2010 10:57:31 AM 877 Views
coming in late, but haven't seen anyone mention langston hughes? *NM* moondog - 30/03/2010 04:14:52 PM 424 Views
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