I know this is realy just for posting poems but I was just wondering, What are some poems that really affected you all? Either changed your life, or your way of thinking of perceiving things, or any way realy
I don't think it is so much about the poem affecting ones life, but more something that effects our lives that cause us to write a poem about it. Probably not the reply you were looking for, but that's the way it is with me.
read anything by john keats and it'll change your mind ... john keats ... jim kirby ... there is a connection ... if only in our initials ... read "Bright Star" first ... i think it was his last poem. luv ya!
Thanks. I just looked it up and read it. Honestly it didn't do anything for me, but it is a nice poem.
Alexander Pope, 'An Essay on Criticism'. All about the creative process and being true to your voice and why one should write poetry. I never really appreciated poetry until I read and understood what Pope was trying to say. Brillant, great imagery, its just so deep! Also I like American poets like Gary Snyder, William Carlos Williams. Then Yeats too and Heaney. Lots, I love the English langauge!
Emily Dickenson's work actually persuaded me that there was more to poetry than my boring English teacher had led me to believe. I cannot say that there is a poem that has changed my life but I read and re-read "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. [size=+1]The Road Not Taken[/size] [size=-1]TWO[/size] roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ______________________________________________ I find it amazingly profound. Peace, Aidan
My English teacher did somewhat of the same for me. She said, "I don't understand you, you critisize poetry, say you hate it, then you turn on your headphones and sing along to the words. What they are singing is poetry." She influenced me the most, then music lyrics, then my feelings just took over without needing influence. This is a neat question you ask, I was intending to do something like this for my "rules, meaning of poetry" post that I just revised... but in different words maybe. And honestly, everything I read effects me in some way or another.
