Good poems

I remember back in highschool how little I thought of classical poetry. Over analyzing a bird as some complex metaphor for something else, when the writer may have meant it just as a bird, but I'm trying to give it a second shot.

Any of you CAGs have some poem/poet suggestions? So far Langston Hughes has been a winner for me. Looking for others.

Homer - The Illiad and The Odessey

Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy

Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven and other poems

Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass and other poems

Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken and other poems

Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales

Allen Ginsberg - Howl and other poems

Williams Shakespeare - A Fairy Song and other poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Rime of the Ancient Mariner and other poems

John Milton - Paradise Lost

William Blake - The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell and other poems

John Keats - The Eve of St Agnes and other poems

T.S. Elliot - The Love-Song of J Alfred Prufrock and other poems

William Butler Yeats - When You Are Old and other poems

William Wordsworth - Lyrical Ballads

Sylvia Plath - The Colossus and other poems

Emily Dickinson - A bird Came Down and other poems

[quote name='evildeadjedi']Homer The Illiad and The Odessey

Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy - yup

Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven -yup and other poems

Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass

Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken -yup

Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales -yup

Allen Ginsberg - Howl and other poems

Williams Shakespeare - A Fairy Song and other poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Rime of the Ancient Mariner

John Milton - Paradise Lost

William Blake - The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell and other poems

John Keats - The Eve of St Agnes and other poems

T.S. Elliot - The Love-Song of J Alfred Prufrock and other poems

William Butler Yeats - When You Are Old and other poems

William Wordsworth - Lyrical Ballads

Sylvia Plath - The Colossus and other poems

Emily Dickinson - A bird Came Down -yup and other poems[/QUOTE]

Thanks. Read several of those. So for RL Stevensen is high on the list too. Forgot he did Treasure Island and Jekyll and Hyde. There was another great short story of his, the Bottle Imp, I think.

I also really enjoyed Life is Fine by Hughes, We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar, and A Poison Tree, by William Blake.

sam clemens

I loved the raven by edgar alan poe as probablly my favorite since I can read it and see different ways into what it really means.

The simpsons even did it. Hearing their voices kind of messes it up but I do love hearing james earl jones voice reciting. Yes it shortened for the sake of the episode but still his voice makes it cool. Only been neated if I heard vincent price read it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9_6IODy0mU


Nevermind, I found vincent reading it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FID1CiB4bcU

The divine comedy is also a good poem. Sadly Ive read alot but not many stuck with me much.