I had the opportunity to study different types of writing in college. Poems. Short stories. Novels. This is something I hope every college student gets to do, no matter the major or area of study.
My favorite work to analyze was always the novel. I felt like I had a ton of material to work with. Now I no longer have to write analysis papers. But why not further diversify my reading by including works that aren’t novels? I want to but my experience with poetry is limited. It’d be easy to just Google search “20th century poets” or something like that and go with whatever I see. I don’t want to.
There are two poets I’ve been looking for. Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson. I can’t remember ever studying either of them, but I know their personal stories are well known. Plath committed suicide at a young age. And Dickinson’s poems were largely unknown during her lifetime.
I’m open to suggestions here. Which poets have you enjoyed reading?
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Emily Dickinson. Walt Whitman, John Dinner, Auden…Off the top of my head. Good luck with your project…A worthwhile one!
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I know the first two. Don’t know the last two. I’ll have to look them up!
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I like your post today because I also always wanted to read good poetry. I’ve not studied poetry here, so this is good start!
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My first love is Poe and Byron but then I discovered Anne Sexton and Maya Angelou.
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And I’ve read none of them. 😂 Maybe a poem or two by Byron in an English literature course in college? Maybe.
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I hated Sylvia Plath when I first read her but recently revisited her poetry and I love it. Carol Ann Duffy’s “The World’s Wife” is good and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (“Work Without Hope” is a must) and Wordsworth is also good to try.
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I’ve actually studied and written about Coleridge. I think the poem I wrote about was “The Chimney Sweeper”. I think. I may be incorrect. I also think I’ve written about Wordsworth. Though my memory tells me that was in high school, so probably not the best analysis.
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