Have we had a favourite poem thread?

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Or is that a bit pretentious?

Well the favourite classics thread got me thinking so here's mine:

Bat - DH Laurence
'The expense of spirit in a waste of shame' sonnet - Shakespeare
Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen
Lament - Dylan Thomas
The Waste Land - TS Eliot

The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock - TS Eliot

On This Island - WH Auden

spacemonkey.......Let us go then, you and i, where the evening is laid ot against the sky, like a patient etherised on a table - it is that one isnt it?

Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas

The Sunlight on the Garden by Louis MacNeice

(pretentious, moi? )

yep that is the one, it's so atmospheric, i love it

Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold.
An Arundel Tomb, Philip Larkin.

We have discussed this before somewhere but everyone loves a thread like this so I'm up for it again...bringing W H Auden to wider knowledge was the best thing about Four Weddings and a Funeral IMO spacedonkey...

at risk of soundling like a complete ponce, wh auden is really musical dontchathink?

Yes, I'll join in you in the nonce corner. Finest English lyrical love poet of the 20th century. I know one is supposed to rate Robert Graves on this front but I much prefer his prose.

I do like a bit of John Hegley too

A Somewhat Absent Minded Attempt to Be Politically Correct
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Someone I don't know that well
tells me they have a little boy.
"Oh yes," I enquire, "and how old is he or she?"

John Hegley

'Poppies' Sylvia Plath
Anyone remember the name of that one about birth of her child? Starts with
'Love set you ticking like a big fat clock'

V partial to Seamus Heaney.

"My new glasses", bless. Billy Bragg too, come to think of it.

snurk spacedonkey!

Or the seminal Hegley poem about the tension between his humble origins and his current status:

I remember Luton
When I'm swallowing my crouton

I'm getting a flashback to Jack Straw thinking mushy peas were guacamole here...

another of my fav hegleys

"Poem about not using tropical hardwoods
because it diminishes the rain forests"

this winter
I hope you get a splinter
if you make a toboggan
and it is a mahog'un

the crouton one is a work of genius though

i never heard the jack straw story - excellent

I eat peas and honey
I've done it all my life
It makes the peas taste funny
But they stick on to my knife!

I'd forgotten that one sd. It still makes me laugh out loud.

It is a bit like that Jack Straw story Marine, isn't it?

I met John Hegley once. Should maybe have put that on the claim to fame thread, but there's less chance of someone saying "Who??" on here

Marina, sorry!

He must live near me, I've seen him in the school playground when picking ds up. He's a genius.

I thought the guacamole story was a bit of an urban myth!
Simon Armitage-really rate him.

Very possibly moondog, but a droll one!
I love Simon Armitage too.

This thread would be even better if you posted the actual poems you like! I'd certainly like to read them.