For today’s meme answer one, some, or all of the following favorites prompts:
Who is your favorite poet?
What is your favorite poem?
What is your favorite/least favorite poetry experience?
What is your favorite poetry collection?
What is your favorite epic poem?
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My answers:
My favorite poet. Hmmm . . . . This is almost as hard as picking a favorite author. I love William Butler Yeats because of the complexity of his poems. I love Walt Whitman for the nature imagery and his language. I love Billy Collins for his accessibility.
My favorite poem. Nope. I can’t do it. I can’t pick one. See other Poetry Tuesday posts for some of my favorites by Mary Oliver, Walt Whitman, and William Butler Yeats.
My favorite poetry experience. I don’t have a lot of what I would classify as “poetry experiences,” but I do have a fond memory of memorizing Juliet’s “a rose by any other name” speech from Romeo and Juliet in ninth grade.
My favorite poetry collection. As of right this second, my favorite poetry collection is Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry. Good times.
My favorite epic poem. Yep. I don’t know much about this one because I haven’t read many epic poems. I want to read The Iliad and The Odyssey and The Aeneid and Paradise Lost. I have read Beowolf. I liked it. I’ve read all of Dante’s The Divine Comedy. Inferno is definitely my favorite. That’s it. Inferno is my favorite epic poem. The end.
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Last week’s group poem was a big hit:
A book or two, or how about three
ducks whittled out of balsa wood
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