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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 997 Views
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester? Camilla - 23/03/2010 07:04:39 PM 810 Views
Re: Rebekah is not prepubescent. Ergo, no. *NM* Danae al'Thor - 23/03/2010 08:06:33 PM 346 Views
Hey. Rochester is actually quite good *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:17:50 PM 321 Views
And amazingly explicit. *NM* Legolas - 23/03/2010 08:35:13 PM 343 Views
Yes Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:37:55 PM 823 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 696 Views
Apparently it was quite fashionable to write them during the Restoration Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:56:31 PM 658 Views
My favourite poet in English is a relatively unknown fellow called James Elroy Flecker. Legolas - 23/03/2010 07:11:03 PM 1088 Views
Baudelaire? Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:42:42 PM 742 Views
What languages do you speak? Tom - 23/03/2010 08:51:18 PM 739 Views
Some Spanish and German Rebekah - 23/03/2010 08:57:59 PM 760 Views
Read Heine if you read German Tom - 23/03/2010 09:01:54 PM 768 Views
Poe Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:46:56 PM 705 Views
Pablo Neruda? *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 09:11:26 PM 360 Views
Borges! Legolas - 23/03/2010 09:12:06 PM 737 Views
Re: Borges! Camilla - 23/03/2010 09:14:37 PM 694 Views
Re: Very tedious poetry. Danae al'Thor - 24/03/2010 12:27:04 AM 778 Views
This is why I will never recommend А́нна Ахма́това/ Anna Akhmatova to anyone who The Shrike - 24/03/2010 04:16:07 PM 810 Views
Heine is very lyrical, though. Tom - 24/03/2010 06:59:58 PM 703 Views
In their original tongues... Larry - 23/03/2010 09:52:32 PM 803 Views
Anything Byron gets my vote, Don Juan in particular. *NM* RandAllThor - 23/03/2010 10:32:32 PM 317 Views
Emily Dickinson? *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:37:19 PM 336 Views
Blake? Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:39:21 PM 669 Views
I loathe her *NM* MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 04:41:57 AM 347 Views
...why? *NM* Camilla - 24/03/2010 08:06:39 AM 327 Views
Re: ...why? MalkierKnight - 25/03/2010 04:48:48 AM 716 Views
Re: ...why? Camilla - 25/03/2010 07:56:02 AM 760 Views
Ah, the certainty of youth! Larry - 25/03/2010 08:02:32 AM 765 Views
Keats MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 04:41:38 AM 770 Views
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot. The Shrike - 24/03/2010 04:13:54 PM 948 Views
it is a good one Camilla - 24/03/2010 08:22:46 PM 756 Views
I detest cats. I am a total dog person. *NM* The Shrike - 24/03/2010 10:19:26 PM 328 Views
heh. for some reason I always thought it'd be the opposite LadyLorraine - 25/03/2010 12:10:55 PM 711 Views
Re: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot. MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 11:25:51 PM 808 Views
Hopkins. Elaine - 24/03/2010 04:43:08 PM 762 Views
Edgar Lee Master LadyLorraine - 24/03/2010 08:03:49 PM 831 Views
Sylvia Plath. Novo - 24/03/2010 11:11:27 PM 808 Views
Re: Poetry: care to recommend me some? Aeryn - 25/03/2010 03:29:57 AM 911 Views
Unsurprisingly, I like simple poetry. nossy - 25/03/2010 03:52:11 AM 740 Views
e e cummings and Poe are two of my favorites *NM* damookster - 26/03/2010 04:13:13 AM 326 Views
Symborska. Spriteling - 26/03/2010 12:24:50 PM 920 Views
I read a couple of Edward Thomas poems recently that I really liked snoopcester - 26/03/2010 03:14:31 PM 810 Views
Thanks, all, for your recommendations. Rebekah - 27/03/2010 10:57:31 AM 728 Views
coming in late, but haven't seen anyone mention langston hughes? *NM* moondog - 30/03/2010 04:14:52 PM 360 Views
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