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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 1166 Views
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester? Camilla - 23/03/2010 07:04:39 PM 988 Views
Re: Rebekah is not prepubescent. Ergo, no. *NM* Danae al'Thor - 23/03/2010 08:06:33 PM 441 Views
Hey. Rochester is actually quite good *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:17:50 PM 407 Views
And amazingly explicit. *NM* Legolas - 23/03/2010 08:35:13 PM 425 Views
Yes Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:37:55 PM 1003 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 898 Views
Apparently it was quite fashionable to write them during the Restoration Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:56:31 PM 837 Views
My favourite poet in English is a relatively unknown fellow called James Elroy Flecker. Legolas - 23/03/2010 07:11:03 PM 1329 Views
Baudelaire? Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:42:42 PM 920 Views
What languages do you speak? Tom - 23/03/2010 08:51:18 PM 920 Views
Some Spanish and German Rebekah - 23/03/2010 08:57:59 PM 935 Views
Read Heine if you read German Tom - 23/03/2010 09:01:54 PM 974 Views
Poe Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:46:56 PM 887 Views
Pablo Neruda? *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 09:11:26 PM 440 Views
Borges! Legolas - 23/03/2010 09:12:06 PM 896 Views
Re: Borges! Camilla - 23/03/2010 09:14:37 PM 865 Views
Re: Very tedious poetry. Danae al'Thor - 24/03/2010 12:27:04 AM 939 Views
This is why I will never recommend А́нна Ахма́това/ Anna Akhmatova to anyone who The Shrike - 24/03/2010 04:16:07 PM 989 Views
Heine is very lyrical, though. Tom - 24/03/2010 06:59:58 PM 862 Views
In their original tongues... Larry - 23/03/2010 09:52:32 PM 977 Views
Anything Byron gets my vote, Don Juan in particular. *NM* RandAllThor - 23/03/2010 10:32:32 PM 402 Views
Emily Dickinson? *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:37:19 PM 418 Views
Blake? Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:39:21 PM 836 Views
I loathe her *NM* MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 04:41:57 AM 433 Views
...why? *NM* Camilla - 24/03/2010 08:06:39 AM 466 Views
Re: ...why? MalkierKnight - 25/03/2010 04:48:48 AM 897 Views
Re: ...why? Camilla - 25/03/2010 07:56:02 AM 934 Views
Ah, the certainty of youth! Larry - 25/03/2010 08:02:32 AM 925 Views
Keats MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 04:41:38 AM 949 Views
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot. The Shrike - 24/03/2010 04:13:54 PM 1140 Views
it is a good one Camilla - 24/03/2010 08:22:46 PM 929 Views
I detest cats. I am a total dog person. *NM* The Shrike - 24/03/2010 10:19:26 PM 403 Views
heh. for some reason I always thought it'd be the opposite LadyLorraine - 25/03/2010 12:10:55 PM 892 Views
Re: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot. MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 11:25:51 PM 975 Views
Hopkins. Elaine - 24/03/2010 04:43:08 PM 947 Views
Edgar Lee Master LadyLorraine - 24/03/2010 08:03:49 PM 992 Views
Sylvia Plath. Novo - 24/03/2010 11:11:27 PM 995 Views
Re: Poetry: care to recommend me some? Aeryn - 25/03/2010 03:29:57 AM 1113 Views
Unsurprisingly, I like simple poetry. nossy - 25/03/2010 03:52:11 AM 915 Views
e e cummings and Poe are two of my favorites *NM* damookster - 26/03/2010 04:13:13 AM 428 Views
Symborska. Spriteling - 26/03/2010 12:24:50 PM 1100 Views
I read a couple of Edward Thomas poems recently that I really liked snoopcester - 26/03/2010 03:14:31 PM 998 Views
Thanks, all, for your recommendations. Rebekah - 27/03/2010 10:57:31 AM 907 Views
coming in late, but haven't seen anyone mention langston hughes? *NM* moondog - 30/03/2010 04:14:52 PM 446 Views
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