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!

[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!!!

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

[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.

[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.

[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*