Answer Me.

[in_the_blue]

1. Sylvia Plath, Insomniac

2. Theodore Roethke, I Knew a Woman

3. Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

4. Denise Levertov, "The Novel" - sorry, you're on your own for this one. It's not online.

5. Anne Sexton, The Starry Night

6. Gregory Corso, Marriage

7. Ted Hughes, The Thought-Fox

8. Ezra Pound, "The Cantos" - if you think I'm a gonna retype the whole Cantos here, think again. A library is in order.

9. Wallace Stevens, The Idea of Order at Key West

10. Robert Frost, Fire and Ice

11. William Butler Yeats, The Circus Animals' Desertion

12. Walt Whitman, Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?

13. Emily Dickinson, Poem #657 ("I Dwell in Possibility")

14. William Carlos Williams, The Young Housewife

15. James Merrill, The Broken Home

16. James Wright, "The Minneapolis Poem" - surprisingly, I couldn't find this one online. Alas.

17. Edgar Lee Masters, Elsa Wertman (from Spoon River Anthology)

18. W.H. Auden, In Memory of WB Yeats

19. William Meredith, "Last Things" - another one not available online, and that's a shame.

20. Nikki Giovanni, Kidnap Poem

I hope you take the time to explore some of these poets and their work. This was a fun thing to do: from a lover of poetry to you, I hope I've sparked your interest.

Comments

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

thank you..i'll do it back sometime...