Who is your favourite poet?

JSK 252

It has to be Longley for me!

ironictoaster

Adrienne Rich

Larkin or Longley

Fad

TBH I hate all of them equally

Piste

Bishop or Longley.


But oh how I hate Larkin.

Shanotheslayer

John Montague

Longely:)

bythewoods

Derek Walcott

Out of the ones I've done, I love Mahon.

Bishop's amazing too, but ... Mahon wins.

PurpleFistMixer

Derek Walcott

Yeah Mahon is deadly, I was so happy he came up last year. My class refused to do Ecclesiastes but I loved that poem, so I wrote about it anyway. >.>

ReacherCreature

Derek Mahon

Montague.

SarcasticFairy

Poetry and I don't generally get along, but if I had to choose a poet, it would be Elizabeth Bishop... Mainly because because she's pretty simple. I hated John Keats

Dante

Derek Walcott

I hate all of them but if i had to choose one it'd be Mahon...hes got some alright poems.

I HATE Bishop....so boring, anyone could write better stuff then that.

phasers

Adrienne Rich

Phillip Larkin, what a legend

Fad

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

Yeah Mahon is deadly, I was so happy he came up last year. My class refused to do Ecclesiastes but I loved that poem, so I wrote about it anyway. >.>

WHAT! They refused it? Its one of the few poems on the course I liked, that and First Death In Nova Scotia (And even then it was because I liked a band who where then called FDINS then the fúckers dropped the INS)

cmcsoft

It's John Keats for me, I thought he was very good

B0X

John Montague

Pretentious, self loathi...

Oh hello, i'm Box, i hate poetry.

BlindedByGInge

Philip Larkin

I agree about John Keats, he is very likely to come up this year aswell. The Odes are very similar so you have to avoid repeating yourself, but apart from that they are easy once you understand them, all that is left is to crap out the same old bs and ur on ur way to a B!!:D

PurpleFistMixer

Derek Walcott

Fad wrote: »

WHAT! They refused it? Its one of the few poems on the course I liked, that and First Death In Nova Scotia (And even then it was because I liked a band who where then called FDINS then the fúckers dropped the INS)

"It was too confusing".
That's also why we didn't do Donne, who is apparently fantastic.

Fad

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

"It was too confusing".

From a guy who doesnt like/get poetry I managed pretty ok with it

LivingDeadGirl

Philip Larkin

Keats definitely

Gloom

Philip Larkin

I really liked Donne last year.

I like most of them actually.

zonEEE

Derek Mahon

I don't know how anyone can like bishop

KnockHoops

strongr im not a big fan of her poetry but im praying she comes up next june so easy to discuss her poetry for me due to her upbringing and her other issues she discusses in her poetry, she is starting to grow on me 18 months after first studying her

JSK 252

John Montague

My predictions for June:

Longley
Bishop
Keats
Walcott

Fringe

I quite liked Mahon when I was doing poetry and was motivated to do English. I'd like Larkin too but my motivation has dropped completely now since I have lost all faith in it.

GA361

Adrienne Rich

Larkin for me :) :( :l:confused: :O:eek: ;)

I HATE Bishop's poetry.
I found Rich's way more interesting and easy to write about.

unknown13

John Montague

Longley

Animo

I don't really like any poetry to be quite honest but one poem I do like is 'The Cage' by John Montague. But thats just cos it reminds me of Dexter:D

macroman

John Montague

Longley for me - that beard is just god like. He also makes his poetry easy to follow for those easily distracted beings...unlike that Keats fellow.

JSK 252

John Montague

Longley is leading the pack.......

Jay P

Bishop is class. Don't get me started on Rich though.... *shudder*
Longley and Mahon are good too

andyman

Derek Walcott

Who I'll think will come up in June

Bishop
Walcott
Keats
Montague

Derek Mahon's my favourite though. So easy. I'd be delighted if Bishop, Montague or Longley came up though.

p1akuw47h5r3it

Hate poetry so much.... E.B is real easy to write about

JSK 252

John Montague

Longley looks like the favourite for 2009!

ironictoaster

Adrienne Rich

Bah, Stupid Badger...

Aisling(",)

so far i like bishop:)

SligoBrewer

Philip Larkin

Keats is an absolute joy to study. Certain to come up as well. Sorted.
Larkin is very 'interesting'.. hard to write on though, the polar opposite of Adrienne 'Yes, I have a vagina and I want the world to know.' Rich. I despise her but she's ridiculously easy to criticize in a personal response.

Twinkle-star15

Adrienne Rich

I hate Rich, but I'm probably going to end up using her . Larkin is my favourite, but I don't think my class is going to do him, my teacher doesn't like him. Tbh, his poetry seems like it would be a bitch to write about, some of the other poets are way easier *coughMontaguecough* :P.

Jammyc

Derek Walcott

bythewoods wrote: »

Out of the ones I've done, I love Mahon.

Bishop's amazing too, but ... Mahon wins.

Exact same as myself, I was a bit torn but I chose Mahon over Bishop!

Mycroft H

Derek Mahon

I love the poem 'like dolmens round my childhod' so simple and evocative.....

SligoBrewer

Philip Larkin

Twinkle-star15 wrote: »

I hate Rich, but I'm probably going to end up using her . Larkin is my favourite, but I don't think my class is going to do him, my teacher doesn't like him. Tbh, his poetry seems like it would be a bitch to write about, some of the other poets are way easier *coughMontaguecough* :P.

Yeah, but I have a distinct disliking for Montague since my teacher told us he would be the easiest to do. Plus the fact that he's an old disturbed fart.

PurpleFistMixer

Derek Walcott

I never liked Montague that much... well, okay, "All Legendary Obstacles" was a pretty nice poem, but I felt he lacked the substance and depth that say, Mahon or Rich had. You could talk about Rich for pages. (And Plath, don't think you guys are doing her though.)

JSK 252

John Montague

I dont like Mahon. He considers himself a european poet and not an Irish poet. I mean for **** sake, if you were on holidays and someone asked you where you were from? You wouldnt say your european, you would say you were Irish. The guy is just odd like.

PurpleFistMixer

Derek Walcott

JSK 252 wrote: »

I dont like Mahon. He considers himself a european poet and not an Irish poet. I mean for **** sake, if you were on holidays and someone asked you where you were from? You wouldnt say your european, you would say you were Irish. The guy is just odd like.

What a bizarre reason to dislike a person. Irish people are European, you know. : p

JSK 252

John Montague

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

What a bizarre reason to dislike a person. Irish people are European, you know. : p

But why call yourself european and not Irish? It makes no sense like. I got the impression from his peotry that he doesnt seem to fit into Irish society. Hes like an outsider and doesnt know where to fit in.

I thought one would be proud to be called Irish.

Its a matter of personal taste but I prefer the NI poet Longley to him, out of the two.

Edsgravy0

John Montague

It's gotta be Longley

He's dead easy to write an English answer about, about his father and war and violence etc.

Ain't done Bishop... am I missing out?

bythewoods

Derek Walcott

SligoBrewer wrote: »

Yeah, but I have a distinct disliking for Montague since my teacher told us he would be the easiest to do. Plus the fact that he's an old disturbed fart.

I actually met Montague last year at a book signing and big.. talk yoke.
He seemed to be a bit of a complete and utter weirdo!
Talking about doing his wife and stuff.... really!
And someone asked a question about that.. poem.. "Same Gesture" (I think?- it's the one with the... um.. that one) and he start talking about masturbation for at least 10 minutes.
Among other stuff!
There's just no nice way of putting it, he's a dirty old man.

JSK 252

John Montague

Sure talks about having sex with a fish in The Trout!;)

PurpleFistMixer

Derek Walcott

JSK 252 wrote: »

But why call yourself european and not Irish? It makes no sense like. I got the impression from his peotry that he doesnt seem to fit into Irish society. Hes like an outsider and doesnt know where to fit in.

I thought one would be proud to be called Irish.

Its a matter of personal taste but I prefer the NI poet Longley to him, out of the two.

Mahon was born in Belfast, just to clarify, he's also from NI. : p (Perhaps he prefers to call himself European rather than instantly bring about political associations of "Irish" or "British", one can only speculate.)
Though... I think his poems deal a fair bit with Irish identity, in fact I wrote about that in my LC... "Poetry of People" etcetera.

cautioner

Elizabeth Bishop

Rich gets my vote purely because Diving Into the Wreck blows my mind and I had a mini epiphany/orgasm in class when I first unraveled its meaning. I say I because my English teacher is a feckless plank who says "pacific" instead of "specific".

Bishop comes second for similar reasons with In the Waiting Room and, to a lesser extent, The Armadillo.

Like Keats. Hate Larkin. Fairly indifferent to the others.

JSK 252

John Montague

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

Mahon was born in Belfast, just to clarify, he's also from NI. : p (Perhaps he prefers to call himself European rather than instantly bring about political associations of "Irish" or "British", one can only speculate.)
Though... I think his poems deal a fair bit with Irish identity, in fact I wrote about that in my LC... "Poetry of People" etcetera.

Thats should have read other NI poet Longley.

ooPabsoo

Derek Mahon

there all dicks!

PurpleFistMixer

Derek Walcott

Nice contribution there. I can see you shall go far in English.