Does anyone else enjoy poetry? Just got a book of John Keats’ poems.
Does anyone else enjoy poetry? Just got a book of John Keats’ poems.
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Does anyone else enjoy poetry? Just got a book of John Keats’ poems.
I try, but feel I do not understand enough yet
I’m with you
Yes
I was introduced to John Keats through a Science fiction series called Hyperion. In the second book, Fall of Hyperion, the characters quote and talk about John Keats with a kind of divine reverence.
After reading, I went out and got a collection of his poems. Turns out I wasn’t as interested in poetry without the fiction narrative backing it up ?
Dan Simmons…right? I have that on my TBR. You just gave me one hell of a temptation to read it ahead of others on the list. ?
Die-hard Keats fan since college days.
@Rohen the first book, Hyperion is like Canterbury Tales in space. I loved it. The second book, Fall of Hyperion, is one of my all time favorite scifi books.
AWESOME! I have the series on my shelf. Will start with the first book as soon as I am finished with the one I am reading currently. ?
I’m going to have to look this up.
Sounds like an interesting fella. Who is he?
Yes, I enjoy reading poetry, Whitman is the poet who I first read,oh, let me see, Bukowski, Robert M. Drake, man I’ am suffering from brain freezehere, but poetry does exite me.
Yes, I actually studied his La Belle Dame Sans Merci for my English Literature. I loved his style of writing and the romance/fantasy genre.
Robert Frost
? What’s life without poetry? Keats, Yeats, Eliot (core of my love for verse), Marvell, Byron, Longfellow, Donne, Chaucer, Brontë, Dickinson, Wordsworth, The Bard…oh the list is endless!
My favourite poet is Wordsworth.love his poems♥♥♥
Keats and Wordsworth
Robert Burns A Man’s a Man For All That. He wrote in Scottish Lallans (Lowland) accent. Whilst it’s English it sometimes needs explanation as in this example. I live in Northern Ireland and this is the accent I grew up with, as is often said ‘It’s the language of my heart’ http://www.interlinear.info/mansaman.htm
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
Robin Williams
The Dead poet’s Society
That’s right!
Keats is great. i am reading Yeats right now
Omg – Keats is my favourite poet. I love “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”
My husband has had some of his poems published when he has entered competitions and has also had some put into a book of poems and published himself xx
Me I love shakspure
If you like Keats, also check out the excellent movie, BRIGHT STAR.
I’ll check it out!
Edgar Allan Poe
I fell in love with The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy during my A Levels.
Yes
Partial to Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry and Billy Collins.
Although I read poetry only rarely of late….I just discovered Mahmoud Darwish. I’m reading The Adam of Two Edens….his poems are insightful and for me…unique in their perspective…..I am enjoying them very much….