(December 5, 2010 at 9:53 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: EverythingAfter would kick me if I didn't include Eliot -
Emily Dickens and Robert Frost were probably my real introduction to poetry, and I can recite Noyes' "The Highwayman" and Tennyson's "Lady of Shalott" and some of "The Raven" but Eliot... Eliot was the one who taught me how a poem can turn you inside out and upside down. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"
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Wow, he sure can write (Eliot). Thank-you for sharing, I read them all, and I really enjoyed Borges poem the most. I'll have to check out the others sometime as well.
Haha, I have not memorized my favourite poems yet. Ted Hughes is pretty good as well! Oh yes? I got into Dickens a few years ago, not so much now...but I love Frost.
I may be lying in the gutter, but I'm staring at the stars.


