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Nominate your favorite poems of the Top 500
Nominate your favorite poems of the Top 500
Have a look over the list I posted of the Top 500 and pick out your favorites to post (titles only) on this thread. I will then make a poll so we can vote on the top 10.
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My most favorite poem of the Top 500 is Birches by Robert Frost. It will take me a little more thinking to narrow down my list of 20 or so to a manageable 5 or 6. I will post again.
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“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” -Thich Nhat Hahn
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This will be a tough assignment. I might create different categories, like the Academy Awards, to make the job easier (e.g., "Best poem about a revelation").
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DWill wrote:
This will be a tough assignment. I might create different categories, like the Academy Awards, to make the job easier (e.g., "Best poem about a revelation").
Great idea, but a bit of a cheat if you ask me.
Also, copied from the Hot 100 thread:
Penny wrote:
Have we had 'The Eve of Saint Agnes' yet? Sometimes I like that one best.
Yes, it was #253
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“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” -Thich Nhat Hahn
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Well, cheating perhaps, but maybe not when I consider the shifting nature of "favorites." I'm likely to make a different choice of favorite from day to day, in a given category. Maybe I'm just uncommonly fickle. But it depends on qualities or types you choose to emphasize at a given time within a category, and assuming that it's a range of qualities you're going to be after, favorites will change with those desired qualities. There, have I overthought this enough yet? No? Well, consider that I'm not sure of how to measure how much I like something, or even whether my liking it should be the worthiest consideration.
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DWill wrote:
Well, cheating perhaps, but maybe not when I consider the shifting nature of "favorites." I'm likely to make a different choice of favorite from day to day, in a given category. Maybe I'm just uncommonly fickle. But it depends on qualities or types you choose to emphasize at a given time within a category, and assuming that it's a range of qualities you're going to be after, favorites will change with those desired qualities. There, have I overthought this enough yet? No? Well, consider that I'm not sure of how to measure how much I like something, or even whether my liking it should be the worthiest consideration.
Very loudly laughing out loud!!! You are too much fun. Makes me want to quote Elizabeth Barrett Browning. So, now post a few catagories and favorites already. And just so you don't feel too bad, I will say that I think we (everyone posting) would agree with you on how hard it is to pick favorites. I said Birches as my most favorite, because I aways love that poem no matter how I feel.
_________________ " How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." - Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” -Thich Nhat Hahn
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Even though I razzed DWill about having categories, I think he is on to something. I was having a hard time figuring out how to organize voting for favorites and categories will help. How about Favorite Emily Dickinson poem, Best Rosebud Poem, Favorite poem written before 1700, Best Pastoral, suggestions?
Here are my top few poems (not in any particular order): The Waking by Roethke Song of the Wandering Aengus by Yeats After Apple Picking by Frost Briches by Frost Anecdote of the Jar by Stevens All of ED's poems -- can't pick this morning Pied Beauty by Hopkins
Oh no, I must stop the list and I didn't even mention Burns & Cummings....this is hard!
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“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” -Thich Nhat Hahn
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Re: Nominate your favorite poems of the Top 500
7. Kubla Khan. Coleridge 9. La Belle Dame sans Merci. Keats 19. The Second Coming. Yeats 22. Sailing to Byzantium. Yeats 27. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Eliot 49. Ode on a Grecian Urn. Keats 51. And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time. Blake 84. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Coleridge 86. The Lake Isle of Innisfree. Yeats 102. Dulce et Decorum Est. Owen 152. Journey of the Magi. Eliot 206. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat. Lear 231. Father William. Carroll 235. The Wild Swans at Coole. Yeats 414. Frost at Midnight. Coleridge 498. The Song of Wandering Aengus. Yeats
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I can see it's easiest to go third, because some from saffron's and Robert's list I would pick, too. I haven't followed through on my category thing.
3. To Autumn. Keats 4. That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold. Shakespeare 7. Kubla Khan. Coleridge 8. Dover Beach. Arnold 9. La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Keats 12. To His Coy Mistress. Marvell 22. Sailing to Byzantium. Yeats 26. Ode to a Nightingale. Keats 30. The Windhover. Hopkins 40. The Good Morrow. Donne 92. Lycidas. Milton 139. Tintern Abbey. Wordsworth 144. There's a certain slant of light. Dickinson 163. The Lucy poems. Wordsworth 203. To a Mouse. Burns 262. After Apple Picking. Frost 287. The Circus Animals' Desertion. Yeats 372. Neutral Tones. Hardy 414. Frost at Midnight. Coleridge 444. Whoso List to Hunt. Wyatt
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Reading over the lists of favorites I see a few repeats. At the end of April I will tally up and see what poems get mentioned more than once. I am hoping to create a Top 10 List.
_________________ " How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." - Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” -Thich Nhat Hahn
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Now that we are finished with all 500 poems, any new nominations for the favorites list? I will try to post the tope 10 favs (as best that I can figure) sometime over the weekend.
_________________ " How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." - Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” -Thich Nhat Hahn
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