GIP + All you poem-lovers out there...

[slumber]

Well, as it said. GIP. *grins*

*loves children* Aren't they cute and adorable? *refrains from cooing*

Also, we are going to begin reciting poems this Thursday for English class. Erk. Pick a poem, the professor said, any poem that you like. (That isn't modern and is, you know, published by a known author.)

So, I am stuck. I have no real favourites, or, er, I don't know. Help, anyone? Give me suggestions for poems.. Originally I thought maybe Invictus, then maybe Sonnet 17 *giggles* but I don't know. I've got to recite it in class and stuff. er, hmm...

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[thethirdbar.livejournal.com]

• 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' by Christopher Marlowe
  
• 'There is A Lady Sweet and Kind' by Thomas Ford
  
• Sonnet VIII by Edmund Spenser

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OMGICONSOCUTE. TERRY AND JUSTIN AND HERMIONE AND ZACHARIAS AND DRACO AND BLAISE AND TERRY/JUSTIN HERMIONE/ZACH SO CUTE CAN'T SPEAK MUST SQUEE, KTHNXBAI.

<33333333333333333!

[slumber.livejournal.com]

oooh thankees!!! :D *looks up poems*

Hee. Glad you liked. :P I love love love Justin especially, and Zach!!! The cap is a verreh good choice. *nods*

<333333333333!!!!!

[marauderthesn.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine heard about that Passionate Shepherd thing and asked, "Is his love the sheep?"

*grins*

[ant-power.livejournal.com]

Donald Justice is the best poet ever. He is dead, I think, so that's not so modern, really. Though, he only died this year. Here is information about him, if you need to know more http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/5810/justice.html

And here are links to my favourite of his poems.

On the death of friends in childhood - http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/5810/justice.html

Women in Love - http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/5810/love.html

Women in Love, I think, is the best poem ever written. I'm not much of a one for poetry as a rule, but that poem is just perfect.

Or if you want to go really Old Skool, there's always Byron...

She walks in Beauty - http://plagiarist.com/poetry/2207/

We'll go no more a-roving - http://plagiarist.com/poetry/5950/

Okay, I think that will do to go on with!!!

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thanks! <333!!! Shall look them up and save now whee I have more choices! :P

My poetry-knowledge is scant, but -

[daniellafromage.livejournal.com]

- almost anything by Byron
- The Lady of Shallot, by Tennyson
- Sherwood, by Alfred Noyes
- Song, by Donne
- Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen
- A woman's beauty is like a white..., by Yeats

I want to give all thje kids in your icon a big hug. <3

Re: My poetry-knowledge is scant, but -

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :D I'll look them up right away. XD

Hee. Aren't they adorable? *pinches their cheeks* <333!!!

[gutterqueen.livejournal.com]

I'm particularly fond of The Road Less Taken by Robert Frost, as cliche as that sounds. It just has a very Ron/Hermione vibe to it.

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Hee. I've just used that to sum up my fic, how could I have *not* remembered. *headdesk* Thanks for reminding me, btw. :P

[klave.livejournal.com]

I wrote an essay on that poem. I was damn proud of the essay...the teacher said it was a great essay on it's own but didn't do so well in the marking criteria and so I only got a B. And it was a kick-ass essay.

*shuts up*

[slumber.livejournal.com]

That's not fair! *huggles*

[klave.livejournal.com]

*hugs back*

I know!!

[irian.livejournal.com]

Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scott. Very rythmic. You read it to make your voice mimic the rythm of clopping hooves.

The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. If you're allowed to use props, there's a Loreena McKennit song which uses the poem for its lyrics. She's also done a song for Lady of Shallot by tennyson, which was recommended to you earlier.

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, thank you! :) Clopping hooves, eh? Hm, she might like that. :P

Great, thanks so much! :D

[irian.livejournal.com]

Glad to help. Our high school English lit classes were *very* comprehensive because the books we used were imported from the US. We had to rent them becaus ebuying would have been hideously expensive. though I've heard that they're selling the books now if you want to buy instead.

[klave.livejournal.com]

Would Pablo Neruda count as modern? Because he wrote stuff at the beginning of the 20th century...and if he's not too modern then do one of his poems because he's liek OMG amazing...

"Tonight I can write the saddest lines,"

*dies internally*

If not...do some Yeats. *smiles to self*

[slumber.livejournal.com]

I know. :P Thanks for the suggestions, Luce! :D

[klave.livejournal.com]

:D