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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 1107 Views
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester? Camilla - 23/03/2010 07:04:39 PM 936 Views
Re: Rebekah is not prepubescent. Ergo, no. *NM* Danae al'Thor - 23/03/2010 08:06:33 PM 399 Views
Hey. Rochester is actually quite good *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:17:50 PM 379 Views
And amazingly explicit. *NM* Legolas - 23/03/2010 08:35:13 PM 396 Views
Yes Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:37:55 PM 952 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 838 Views
Apparently it was quite fashionable to write them during the Restoration Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:56:31 PM 777 Views
My favourite poet in English is a relatively unknown fellow called James Elroy Flecker. Legolas - 23/03/2010 07:11:03 PM 1256 Views
Baudelaire? Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:42:42 PM 869 Views
What languages do you speak? Tom - 23/03/2010 08:51:18 PM 860 Views
Some Spanish and German Rebekah - 23/03/2010 08:57:59 PM 877 Views
Read Heine if you read German Tom - 23/03/2010 09:01:54 PM 898 Views
Poe Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:46:56 PM 825 Views
Pablo Neruda? *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 09:11:26 PM 413 Views
Borges! Legolas - 23/03/2010 09:12:06 PM 851 Views
Re: Borges! Camilla - 23/03/2010 09:14:37 PM 813 Views
Re: Very tedious poetry. Danae al'Thor - 24/03/2010 12:27:04 AM 889 Views
This is why I will never recommend А́нна Ахма́това/ Anna Akhmatova to anyone who The Shrike - 24/03/2010 04:16:07 PM 935 Views
Heine is very lyrical, though. Tom - 24/03/2010 06:59:58 PM 809 Views
In their original tongues... Larry - 23/03/2010 09:52:32 PM 923 Views
Anything Byron gets my vote, Don Juan in particular. *NM* RandAllThor - 23/03/2010 10:32:32 PM 370 Views
Emily Dickinson? *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:37:19 PM 391 Views
Blake? Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:39:21 PM 784 Views
I loathe her *NM* MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 04:41:57 AM 402 Views
...why? *NM* Camilla - 24/03/2010 08:06:39 AM 431 Views
Re: ...why? MalkierKnight - 25/03/2010 04:48:48 AM 844 Views
Re: ...why? Camilla - 25/03/2010 07:56:02 AM 872 Views
Ah, the certainty of youth! Larry - 25/03/2010 08:02:32 AM 879 Views
Keats MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 04:41:38 AM 890 Views
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot. The Shrike - 24/03/2010 04:13:54 PM 1080 Views
it is a good one Camilla - 24/03/2010 08:22:46 PM 874 Views
I detest cats. I am a total dog person. *NM* The Shrike - 24/03/2010 10:19:26 PM 378 Views
heh. for some reason I always thought it'd be the opposite LadyLorraine - 25/03/2010 12:10:55 PM 838 Views
Re: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot. MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 11:25:51 PM 927 Views
Hopkins. Elaine - 24/03/2010 04:43:08 PM 890 Views
Edgar Lee Master LadyLorraine - 24/03/2010 08:03:49 PM 940 Views
Sylvia Plath. Novo - 24/03/2010 11:11:27 PM 936 Views
Re: Poetry: care to recommend me some? Aeryn - 25/03/2010 03:29:57 AM 1053 Views
Unsurprisingly, I like simple poetry. nossy - 25/03/2010 03:52:11 AM 858 Views
e e cummings and Poe are two of my favorites *NM* damookster - 26/03/2010 04:13:13 AM 391 Views
Symborska. Spriteling - 26/03/2010 12:24:50 PM 1044 Views
I read a couple of Edward Thomas poems recently that I really liked snoopcester - 26/03/2010 03:14:31 PM 937 Views
Thanks, all, for your recommendations. Rebekah - 27/03/2010 10:57:31 AM 853 Views
coming in late, but haven't seen anyone mention langston hughes? *NM* moondog - 30/03/2010 04:14:52 PM 414 Views
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