Eh, I'm really a dabbler, so I don't know any one poet's work that well (although I did read all of Shakespeare's sonnets in college, and since then I've read all 100 of Neruda's love sonnets). I tend to read anthologies rather than collections by individual poets, so I think I appear better-read than I actually am. ;-)
As for who/what I don't like...I tend not to like long poetry -- if you're going to write something novel-length, write it in prose, please! I don't always do well with rhyming poetry. Too singsongy. And I tend to prefer more contemporary stuff; the flowery language of older poems can be tough going.
I'm not a huge fan of Sylvia Plath either. Her stuff often seems over-stylized and cold to me, and I don't like that you have to know her life story to understand what the hell she's talking about half the time. That said, her well-known poem Daddy is amazing. Gives me chills.
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As for who/what I don't like...I tend not to like long poetry -- if you're going to write something novel-length, write it in prose, please! I don't always do well with rhyming poetry. Too singsongy. And I tend to prefer more contemporary stuff; the flowery language of older poems can be tough going.
I'm not a huge fan of Sylvia Plath either. Her stuff often seems over-stylized and cold to me, and I don't like that you have to know her life story to understand what the hell she's talking about half the time. That said, her well-known poem Daddy is amazing. Gives me chills.
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