Poems

[earthman buck]

We're doing these poetry projects in LA, and we're supposed to pick a bunch of poems of varying styles and analyze them. We can only use a maximum of two songs, so I'm pretty much screwed.

If you know of any cool poems, tell me about them so I can see if I'd like to use 'em or not.

One thing, though: I hate free verse. If it's a free verse poem, it better be damn awesome to make up for the fact that it's stupid free verse. :)

Thanks in advance.

[stephenlyrical]

W.H.Auden "Stop All the Clocks, Turn off the Phone."

Some of Emily Dickensons work.

Paul Westerberg wrote song about Sylvia Plath "Crackle and Drag" great tune might use those lyrics.

William Carlos Williams another good resource.

You can look these people up on web and see if anything blows your skirt up.

Also there this great poem by D H Lawrence. "A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself"

Hope this helps,
S

[R. Shackleferd]

Robert Frost was usually who I picked for those kind of projects, not only because I liked his stuff, but there's no shortage of critiques for him.

Also, this site might be handy to help decide who to use (and for general leisure at times too):
Online books, poems, and short stories (http://www.readprint.com/)

[hunter60]

Here's a few names pretty far from the main-stream:

Charles Bukowski

Leonard Cohen (yeah, I know he's a singer/songwriter but he's written some pretty kick a** verse too.)

Nick Tosches (hard to find his poetry but it's out there)

Oh yeah. Samuel Coleridge too.

Good luck

[jeffhx]

john donne? he makes pretty wicked stuff...

[Jolly McJollyson]

Lord Byron

John Keats

William Butler Yeats

Ezra Pound

T.S. Eliot

James Joyce

Shakespeare

Poe

[jiujitsu_jesus]

Try Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan", great poem.

[Jolly McJollyson]

Try Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan", great poem.
I really prefer "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

That phrase "Stately pleasure dome" really turns me off to Kubla Khan.

[z0s0_jp]

I really prefer "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."


STC totally ripped maiden off ;)

[Jolly McJollyson]

STC totally ripped maiden off ;)
Hahaha. Yeah, that Maiden song is one of my favorites. It's just hilarious.

[jiujitsu_jesus]

I really prefer "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

That phrase "Stately pleasure dome" really turns me off to Kubla Khan.

True... but I love "a savage place! As holy and enchanted as e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted by woman wailing for her demon lover!"

The Maiden version of "Rime" is cool!

[earthman buck]

Alright, here's what I've got so far:

Girl Anachronism -- Amanda Palmer (song by the Dresden Dolls)
Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style -- Thurston Moore (song by Sonic Youth)
i sing of Olaf glad and big -- E.E. Cummings
A Baby Asleep after Pain -- D.H. Lawrence
Spotted Owl -- Court Smith
A Song for Hedli Anderson -- W.H. Auden
Statement of Being -- Ezra Pound
hello, how are you? -- Charles Bukowski
I Am 25 -- Gregory Corso (I actually think "Bomb" is a much better poem of his, but it's just so friggin long.)

So that's nine. I need three more. I could include a maximum of two of my own, but I'd really rather not. I mean, how do you analyze a poem if you know exactly what it's about?