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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 906 Views
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester? Camilla - 23/03/2010 07:04:39 PM 717 Views
Re: Rebekah is not prepubescent. Ergo, no. *NM* Danae al'Thor - 23/03/2010 08:06:33 PM 308 Views
Hey. Rochester is actually quite good *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:17:50 PM 289 Views
And amazingly explicit. *NM* Legolas - 23/03/2010 08:35:13 PM 312 Views
Yes Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:37:55 PM 729 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 607 Views
Apparently it was quite fashionable to write them during the Restoration Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:56:31 PM 568 Views
My favourite poet in English is a relatively unknown fellow called James Elroy Flecker. Legolas - 23/03/2010 07:11:03 PM 991 Views
Baudelaire? Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:42:42 PM 656 Views
What languages do you speak? Tom - 23/03/2010 08:51:18 PM 643 Views
Some Spanish and German Rebekah - 23/03/2010 08:57:59 PM 671 Views
Read Heine if you read German Tom - 23/03/2010 09:01:54 PM 678 Views
Poe Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:46:56 PM 613 Views
Pablo Neruda? *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 09:11:26 PM 324 Views
Borges! Legolas - 23/03/2010 09:12:06 PM 641 Views
Re: Borges! Camilla - 23/03/2010 09:14:37 PM 612 Views
Re: Very tedious poetry. Danae al'Thor - 24/03/2010 12:27:04 AM 690 Views
This is why I will never recommend А́нна Ахма́това/ Anna Akhmatova to anyone who The Shrike - 24/03/2010 04:16:07 PM 720 Views
Heine is very lyrical, though. Tom - 24/03/2010 06:59:58 PM 613 Views
In their original tongues... Larry - 23/03/2010 09:52:32 PM 713 Views
Anything Byron gets my vote, Don Juan in particular. *NM* RandAllThor - 23/03/2010 10:32:32 PM 282 Views
Emily Dickinson? *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:37:19 PM 302 Views
Blake? Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:39:21 PM 581 Views
I loathe her *NM* MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 04:41:57 AM 309 Views
...why? *NM* Camilla - 24/03/2010 08:06:39 AM 289 Views
Re: ...why? MalkierKnight - 25/03/2010 04:48:48 AM 629 Views
Re: ...why? Camilla - 25/03/2010 07:56:02 AM 673 Views
Ah, the certainty of youth! Larry - 25/03/2010 08:02:32 AM 677 Views
Keats MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 04:41:38 AM 675 Views
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot. The Shrike - 24/03/2010 04:13:54 PM 840 Views
it is a good one Camilla - 24/03/2010 08:22:46 PM 665 Views
I detest cats. I am a total dog person. *NM* The Shrike - 24/03/2010 10:19:26 PM 286 Views
heh. for some reason I always thought it'd be the opposite LadyLorraine - 25/03/2010 12:10:55 PM 629 Views
Re: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot. MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 11:25:51 PM 715 Views
Hopkins. Elaine - 24/03/2010 04:43:08 PM 667 Views
Edgar Lee Master LadyLorraine - 24/03/2010 08:03:49 PM 748 Views
Sylvia Plath. Novo - 24/03/2010 11:11:27 PM 709 Views
Re: Poetry: care to recommend me some? Aeryn - 25/03/2010 03:29:57 AM 808 Views
Unsurprisingly, I like simple poetry. nossy - 25/03/2010 03:52:11 AM 679 Views
e e cummings and Poe are two of my favorites *NM* damookster - 26/03/2010 04:13:13 AM 291 Views
Symborska. Spriteling - 26/03/2010 12:24:50 PM 762 Views
I read a couple of Edward Thomas poems recently that I really liked snoopcester - 26/03/2010 03:14:31 PM 733 Views
Thanks, all, for your recommendations. Rebekah - 27/03/2010 10:57:31 AM 644 Views
coming in late, but haven't seen anyone mention langston hughes? *NM* moondog - 30/03/2010 04:14:52 PM 326 Views
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