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Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
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Re: Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
#282So many... but recently... Shelley, Ozymandias: I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that…
The Second Coming. It is beyond extraordinary. The power of the images is utterly breathtaking.
However, your version does not have the words of the poem as it's generally published. I've never seen your version. Italics below show the more common wording.
"When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi / Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert / A shape with lion body and the head of a man, / A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,..."
Re: Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
#283Great thread. Emily Dickinson I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell! They'd banish -- you know! How dreary to be somebody! How public like a frog To tell one's name the livelong day To an admiring bog!
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Re: Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
#284Charles Bukowski, Leonard Cohen, and a lot of poets in another language that few people on here will know.
Re: Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
#285Favourite? I don't know... Blake? Poe? Various Japanese classics? Currently reading "Paradise Lost" by Milton. But what I've probably listened to most, lately, is Kate Tempest:
I know now, first hand,
That regretting love will empty you
Of all that makes you love
And all that lovers pay attention to.
(Verse from "Best Intentions", Kate Tempest)
[edit: Somewhat apropos, perhaps:
"Kate Tempest - 13 Commandments"
Re: Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
#286Rudyard Kipling, William Wordsworth, Edgar Allan Poe
Re: Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
#287William Wordsworth, Edgar Allan Poe and Rudyard Kipling
Re: Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
#288Jenny Kissed Me by Leigh Hunt Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in. Time, you thief! who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in. Say I'm weary, say I'm sad; Say that health and wealth have missed me; Say I'm growing old, but add- Jenny kissed me!
Fantastic
Re: Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
#289elicura chihuailaf
Re: Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
#290 Georgia Dusk (by Jean Toomer)
The sky, lazily disdaining to pursue
The setting sun, too indolent to hold
A lengthened tournament for flashing gold,
Passively darkens for night’s barbecue,
A feast of moon and men and barking hounds,
An orgy for some genius of the South
With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth,
Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.
The sawmill blows its whistle, buzz-saws stop,
And silence breaks the bud of knoll and hill,
Soft settling pollen where plowed lands fulfill
Their early promise of a bumper crop.
Smoke from the pyramidal sawdust pile
Curls up, blue ghosts of trees, tarrying low
Where only chips and stumps are left to show
The solid proof of former domicile.
Meanwhile, the men, with vestiges of pomp,
Race memories of king and caravan,
High-priests, an ostrich, and a juju-man,
Go singing through the footpaths of the swamp.
Their voices rise . . the pine trees are guitars,
Strumming, pine-needles fall like sheets of rain . .
Their voices rise . . the chorus of the cane
Is caroling a vesper to the stars . .
O singers, resinous and soft your songs
Above the sacred whisper of the pines,
Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,
Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.