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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 976 Views
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester? Camilla - 23/03/2010 07:04:39 PM 786 Views
Re: Rebekah is not prepubescent. Ergo, no. *NM* Danae al'Thor - 23/03/2010 08:06:33 PM 333 Views
Hey. Rochester is actually quite good *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:17:50 PM 313 Views
And amazingly explicit. *NM* Legolas - 23/03/2010 08:35:13 PM 334 Views
Yes Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:37:55 PM 800 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 677 Views
Apparently it was quite fashionable to write them during the Restoration Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:56:31 PM 638 Views
My favourite poet in English is a relatively unknown fellow called James Elroy Flecker. Legolas - 23/03/2010 07:11:03 PM 1065 Views
Baudelaire? Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:42:42 PM 721 Views
What languages do you speak? Tom - 23/03/2010 08:51:18 PM 715 Views
Some Spanish and German Rebekah - 23/03/2010 08:57:59 PM 742 Views
Read Heine if you read German Tom - 23/03/2010 09:01:54 PM 743 Views
Poe Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:46:56 PM 683 Views
Pablo Neruda? *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 09:11:26 PM 351 Views
Borges! Legolas - 23/03/2010 09:12:06 PM 712 Views
Re: Borges! Camilla - 23/03/2010 09:14:37 PM 671 Views
Re: Very tedious poetry. Danae al'Thor - 24/03/2010 12:27:04 AM 757 Views
This is why I will never recommend А́нна Ахма́това/ Anna Akhmatova to anyone who The Shrike - 24/03/2010 04:16:07 PM 789 Views
Heine is very lyrical, though. Tom - 24/03/2010 06:59:58 PM 679 Views
In their original tongues... Larry - 23/03/2010 09:52:32 PM 784 Views
Anything Byron gets my vote, Don Juan in particular. *NM* RandAllThor - 23/03/2010 10:32:32 PM 305 Views
Emily Dickinson? *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:37:19 PM 325 Views
Blake? Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:39:21 PM 649 Views
I loathe her *NM* MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 04:41:57 AM 339 Views
...why? *NM* Camilla - 24/03/2010 08:06:39 AM 316 Views
Re: ...why? MalkierKnight - 25/03/2010 04:48:48 AM 693 Views
Re: ...why? Camilla - 25/03/2010 07:56:02 AM 739 Views
Ah, the certainty of youth! Larry - 25/03/2010 08:02:32 AM 740 Views
Keats MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 04:41:38 AM 752 Views
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot. The Shrike - 24/03/2010 04:13:54 PM 925 Views
it is a good one Camilla - 24/03/2010 08:22:46 PM 738 Views
I detest cats. I am a total dog person. *NM* The Shrike - 24/03/2010 10:19:26 PM 318 Views
heh. for some reason I always thought it'd be the opposite LadyLorraine - 25/03/2010 12:10:55 PM 691 Views
Re: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot. MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 11:25:51 PM 787 Views
Hopkins. Elaine - 24/03/2010 04:43:08 PM 739 Views
Edgar Lee Master LadyLorraine - 24/03/2010 08:03:49 PM 811 Views
Sylvia Plath. Novo - 24/03/2010 11:11:27 PM 775 Views
Re: Poetry: care to recommend me some? Aeryn - 25/03/2010 03:29:57 AM 885 Views
Unsurprisingly, I like simple poetry. nossy - 25/03/2010 03:52:11 AM 717 Views
e e cummings and Poe are two of my favorites *NM* damookster - 26/03/2010 04:13:13 AM 317 Views
Symborska. Spriteling - 26/03/2010 12:24:50 PM 827 Views
I read a couple of Edward Thomas poems recently that I really liked snoopcester - 26/03/2010 03:14:31 PM 791 Views
Thanks, all, for your recommendations. Rebekah - 27/03/2010 10:57:31 AM 706 Views
coming in late, but haven't seen anyone mention langston hughes? *NM* moondog - 30/03/2010 04:14:52 PM 353 Views
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