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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 1132 Views
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester? Camilla - 23/03/2010 07:04:39 PM 958 Views
Re: Rebekah is not prepubescent. Ergo, no. *NM* Danae al'Thor - 23/03/2010 08:06:33 PM 414 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 405 Views
Yes Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:37:55 PM 975 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 869 Views
Apparently it was quite fashionable to write them during the Restoration Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:56:31 PM 802 Views
My favourite poet in English is a relatively unknown fellow called James Elroy Flecker. Legolas - 23/03/2010 07:11:03 PM 1278 Views
Baudelaire? Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:42:42 PM 896 Views
What languages do you speak? Tom - 23/03/2010 08:51:18 PM 884 Views
Some Spanish and German Rebekah - 23/03/2010 08:57:59 PM 904 Views
Read Heine if you read German Tom - 23/03/2010 09:01:54 PM 930 Views
Poe Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:46:56 PM 851 Views
Pablo Neruda? *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 09:11:26 PM 425 Views
Borges! Legolas - 23/03/2010 09:12:06 PM 871 Views
Re: Borges! Camilla - 23/03/2010 09:14:37 PM 840 Views
Re: Very tedious poetry. Danae al'Thor - 24/03/2010 12:27:04 AM 910 Views
This is why I will never recommend А́нна Ахма́това/ Anna Akhmatova to anyone who The Shrike - 24/03/2010 04:16:07 PM 957 Views
Heine is very lyrical, though. Tom - 24/03/2010 06:59:58 PM 831 Views
In their original tongues... Larry - 23/03/2010 09:52:32 PM 945 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 807 Views
I loathe her *NM* MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 04:41:57 AM 414 Views
...why? *NM* Camilla - 24/03/2010 08:06:39 AM 450 Views
Re: ...why? MalkierKnight - 25/03/2010 04:48:48 AM 866 Views
Re: ...why? Camilla - 25/03/2010 07:56:02 AM 900 Views
Ah, the certainty of youth! Larry - 25/03/2010 08:02:32 AM 902 Views
Keats MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 04:41:38 AM 916 Views
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot. The Shrike - 24/03/2010 04:13:54 PM 1110 Views
it is a good one Camilla - 24/03/2010 08:22:46 PM 898 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 861 Views
Re: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot. MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 11:25:51 PM 952 Views
Hopkins. Elaine - 24/03/2010 04:43:08 PM 916 Views
Edgar Lee Master LadyLorraine - 24/03/2010 08:03:49 PM 962 Views
Sylvia Plath. Novo - 24/03/2010 11:11:27 PM 961 Views
Re: Poetry: care to recommend me some? Aeryn - 25/03/2010 03:29:57 AM 1081 Views
Unsurprisingly, I like simple poetry. nossy - 25/03/2010 03:52:11 AM 878 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 961 Views
Thanks, all, for your recommendations. Rebekah - 27/03/2010 10:57:31 AM 879 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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