Thursday, April 20, 2006

other people's poems

i still havnt polished those australian poems, so here's a few of my favourite poems that anyone with an interest in poetry should read.

of primary importance:

TS Elliot - The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
Dylan Thomas - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Thomas Hardy - Afterwards
WB Yeats - He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
Phillip Larkin - This Be The Verse

and because i cant confine myself to five choices:

Robert Frost - Aquainted With The Night
Ted Hughes - The Thought Fox
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandius Of Egypt
Louis Macneice - Prayer Before Birth
George Gordon, Lord Byron - We'll No More Go A Roving

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