Comments | kelquestor: What's your favourite poem?

kelquestor

What's your favourite poem?

Aug 25, 2009 14:39

I'm supposed to be working on content for my poetry group's website, but I am very distracted and besides, I don't know what I am doing. The website set-up as provided by our host includes a poll side-bar and I was thinking of using it to ask, "What is your favourite poem?" of visitors to the site.

And visitors to LJ,
what is your favourite poem?

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Comments 12

truyuanfen August 25 2009, 05:13:14 UTC

the quiet world by jeffrey mcdaniel

kelquestor August 25 2009, 05:49:52 UTC

*looks into your eyes, nods and smiles*

daisydumont August 25 2009, 10:32:27 UTC

what a question! actually, some of my favorite poems are by someone who used to have an LJ but doesn't now, so his work is unavailable, alas.

one of my favorites is "There Has to Be a Jail for Ladies" by thomas merton.

kelquestor August 26 2009, 21:50:58 UTC

It is a big question, isn't it? Part of KelQuestor's mission statement: to ask the big questions! And you may answer as many times as you like : )

I think the ladies should be set free!

peter1610 August 25 2009, 11:28:05 UTC

you dont really want MY fav poem shirly ?

kelquestor August 26 2009, 21:28:38 UTC

You know I do mate.

peter1610 August 28 2009, 11:40:34 UTC

well I'm a bit of a philistine in this area as ye know..my favourite poem is such a popular one that it's become a mantra for pilots, High Flight...lets face it, we all want to fly, it is the most recurring dream of all, just ahead of going to school with no pants on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillespie_Magee,_Jr.

anonymous August 26 2009, 14:43:21 UTC

'Suicide in the Trenches'
by Siegfried Sassoon.

How powerful and how amazing to write of such stuff, with that sort of spin at that time in history.

I've quoted on my blog in the past yeear or three.

jdbuzz August 26 2009, 14:45:47 UTC

Ummm. Ziggy Sassoon was me. I wasn't logged in. Stupid boy that I am...

kelquestor August 26 2009, 21:28:05 UTC

Thanks for owning up. I don't think you're stupid. Rather a sombre choice, though. English.

jdbuzz August 27 2009, 20:14:40 UTC

Sombre yea. But there's very very powerful emotion in it. I like the theme and the persepctive he brings to war in a time when everyone was going to be a hero. He wrote a lot from the trenches. I find it very moving and very sad.

It's simple and I think it has to be, given the subject matter. The message is important and isn't lost in the delivery, rather it is highlighted by the delivery.