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merry · Guest

does anyone here really like to write poetry? i am doing a project on it for english class and we are supposed to find good poems written by people (no really what else would they be written by?) so if u have any good poems that u want to share PLEASE DO!!!
~merry

Coralfish · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 10:10 am Post subject:

Actually, I cannot write poetry, but I do read it.
Why am I replying to this then? you may ask...well..that remains as yet to be decided I suppose(mostly boredom I guess Wink

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Anyhow, what I am trying to say is "Yes, I like poetry".
By the way, nice location: "The South of France". Wink

merry · Guest

hellow coralfish, yes dont u just love my "location" i plan to live there as soon as i "have enough money!
I NEED POEMS!!!!!!

~merry

Elf of Rivendell · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 8:03 pm Post subject:

I once wrote some poetry-if that can be called poetry, that is-. It's more of a jumble of words describing Zwall's "floor slaps".

anna k · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 9:12 pm Post subject:

Uhh..I can't stand poetry!! I prefer books that are at a faster pace. Smile

And I prefer movies over reading! Wink

Ferder- · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 10:25 pm Post subject:

I'm to into "poetry" poetry, with all those unryming flowery frases, but I do appreciet good comic and story-telling poetry (Lewis Carrol Ogden Nash ect). It is very important for me that the poem rymes.

Melissa · Junior Member Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Posts: 130

I personally tend not to read poetry... I do like Lewis Carrol and Ogden Nash though. Maybe I just like their "non-sense." Actually, the more I think about it, the more fun ee cummings seems to become!

Coralfish · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 1:05 am Post subject:

but he makes absolutely no sense...well mabye a little, but not much.

I like the poem to rhyme, yes, but it should also move. I am not in favor of the poems that simply contemplate aspects of life. While they have thier place, they just are not my favorite. Some speeches are very good, I don't know if they are technically considered "poetry" as such, for instance the speech during the play "Julius Ceasar" by Shakespere, Mark Antony delivers the famous eulogy to Ceasar, using the words in his favor to influence the mob....but enough of that. I just wanted to mention that some of these such speeches are almost like poetry in a way. The way the words are used, contain almost a poetic form...

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men--
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.

Melissa · Junior Member Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Posts: 130

Well, I don't particularly like most poetry, so that would explain why I like the nonsense stuff.

And, no offense, but I really have never liked Shakespeare Rolling Eyes

Coralfish · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 11:54 am Post subject:

Shakespere, once translated, is really actually very good.
In 8th grade I abhored Skakespere's works, in 9th I disliked them, in 10th they were ok, 11th I liked them a bit, and this year I like them a bit more.

So it would seem that the trend is reversing! Wink