master of meter, style, and sadness i dont read or write anymore but was always inspired by his works even if they are old or outdated. wrote probably the greatest lyrical poems in the English language like break break break, the oak, crossing the bar, tears idle tears, ulysses, the lady of shallot, the lotos eaters etc…
also used to love keats, lord byron, edmund spenser, swinburne, manley hopkins, dryden, Milton, and my second favorite poet is probably ae housman
Mar 7, 2024
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i know tennyson is old stuff and whatever i used to have an obsession with old poetry not anymore but still just remembered this poem and it still beautiful and doesn’t rhyme
Jan 24, 2024
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this poem captures my worldview so well and shelley remains one of my favourite poets. this is probably one of the most famous, but a classic favourite of mine.
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I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Jul 2, 2024
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first poem i loved and kept with me as a ripe 7th grader. read over and over to the point where it plays in my head, little things will remind me of it - foggy nights in the city or the ocean in winter or pondering my own mortality - and lines come flowing back
others stuck in my noggin include style by charles bukowski and the sunflower sutra by allen ginsberg. at this point i can probably recite a good number of billy collins works bc ive listened to the recorded album "the best cigarette" approximately 500 times
Jun 5, 2024
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hi guys
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