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I am a new user, and a newbie when it comes to poetry. What is a good poem/ poetry book.
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 8:45 pm
by TheAwkwardBotanist
I am in a deep search for some good poetry, any ideas and/or suggestions? Please help!
Re: I am a new user, and a newbie when it comes to poetry. What is a good poem/ poetry book.
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 11:22 am
by armenia2012
I have written a very good book of poems and songs Called Soup for the Soul of the Servant available on Amazon in print and kindle. If you like faith based poems this is the book for you!! You will definitely get ideas for how to write poems from reading this book. May I also recommend joining poetrysoup.com to get ideas on writing poems. Hope this helps.
Re: I am a new user, and a newbie when it comes to poetry. What is a good poem/ poetry book.
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 6:28 am
by Sal_McCoy
For future reference:
How does a poem mean? by John Ciardi.
Re: I am a new user, and a newbie when it comes to poetry. What is a good poem/ poetry book.
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 8:22 pm
by DWill
This might strike the OP as odd, but I would suggest Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. The tone is breezy throughout, the themes easy to appreciate, and most important of all, sound and rhythm are strongly emphasized.
Re: I am a new user, and a newbie when it comes to poetry. What is a good poem/ poetry book.
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2017 10:38 am
by Opheliasviolets
Though English is not my mother tongue i fancy reading English poems or poetic novels in my own language.However,i'd like to read the original texts.It was not so hard to read Waves from Woolf unlike Mrs.Dollaway.So i'd be glad to receive your suggestions.I was also delighted in Lord Byron yet some phrases-i assume medieval English-made it difficult for me to understand the passages unmistakably.So i can only read if it's in modern English.
Re: I am a new user, and a newbie when it comes to poetry. What is a good poem/ poetry book.
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 9:23 am
by Cattleman
Where to start? So many poets, so many poems. Romance, inspirational, adventure. Do you have a public library close? If so, go check out the poetry shelve (if you have trouble, ask a librarian, that is why they are there). Or, go on line (you are obviously somewhat familier with the internet). Look uder "Poetry." Or, try some famous poets. Robert Browning, Elizbeth Barrett Brownng, Emily Dickinson, Alfred, Lory Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Rudyard Kipling (my personal favorite), Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, more. Check back if you need more guidance (I have been reading for over 70 years - that's right -70)
Re: I am a new user, and a newbie when it comes to poetry. What is a good poem/ poetry book.
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 1:17 pm
by Litwitlou
Professor Palgrave's Golden Treasury
How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry by Edward Hirsch
Re: I am a new user, and a newbie when it comes to poetry. What is a good poem/ poetry book.
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2019 9:53 am
by KevinMcCabe
Try Omar Khayyam?
Re: I am a new user, and a newbie when it comes to poetry. What is a good poem/ poetry book.
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2024 2:59 pm
by The Bookworm
I think Wilfred Owen's poems are fascinating and definitely captivating. My personal favourite works of his is "Dulce Et Decorum Est, and "Insensibility." These certainly highlight the horrendous ways of war in a rather graphic way (but also rather important way, so people knew the reality of war) , but if you like poems about real-life events and disasters he might be the poet for you.
If you're not really that type, I would recommend "How happy is the little stone," by Emily Dickinson. I love this poem - it shows the view of "happiness" through a stone in the road, which I thought was interesting.