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William Carlos Willams
Pablo Neruda
Langston Hughes
Shel Silverstein
Robert Frost
Walt Whitman
Lewis Carroll
Emily Dickinson
William Blake
Gwendolyn Brooks
Billy Collins
Edgar Allen Poe
Raymond Carver
Ernest Thayer
e.e. cummings
Seamus Heany
William Butler Yeats
Charles Wright
Gregory Orr
My poet is Raymond Carver. He live from 1938 to 1988. He mainly wrote short poems. In a New York Review of Books article, Thomas R. Edwards describes Carver's fictional world as a place where "people worry about whether their old cars will start, where unemployment or personal bankruptcy are present dangers, where a good time consists of smoking pot with the neighbors, with a little cream soda and M & M's on the side.* I personely don't know much about him, but he sounds like a good poet.
ReplyDeleteMy poet is e.e. cummings. He often used words like,am,was, and is. Even made his own grammar rules to which word goes were.He made lots of different poems.Each time he used different placing of words.He had his own world of writing.
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ReplyDeleteMy poet is langston Hughes he is african americn,in the art of smooth jazz poetry.One of his awards was a middle school name after him, it was called Langston Hughes middle school in reston virginia.
My poet is Lewis Carroll. His real name is Charles Lutwidge Dodson, but Lewis Carroll is much easier to remember. He was born on Jan 27, 1832 and died on Jan 14,1898, aged 65. In his lifetime, he was an English author, a poet, a mathematician, a logician, an Angelican deacon, and a photographer. His most famous writings, "Alice in Wonderland", "Through the Looking Glass", "Jabberwocky", and "The Hunting of the Snark" are all examples of literary nonsense, which is what he liked to use. He is noted for his word play, logic, and fantasy.
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Pablo Neruda was born on July 12, 1904, in Chile. He died September 23, 1973. He won the Noble Prize in Literature in 1971. He wrote a lot of love poems, but other kinds, too: historical, epic, political, surrealist. He was going to be arrested for being a Communist. He went into hiding and was smuggled from house to house with his wife for the next 13 months. I like his poem, “A Dog Has Died,” because it talks about his dog dying, but not worrying about it too much. He thinks there is not a heaven for humans, but there is a heaven for dogs. His house on an island doesn’t look like the best, and he doesn’t look like a man you’d mess with, but inside, he was much loved, admired, and a very nice man.
ReplyDeleteThe poet I got was Charles Wright. He was born in Pickwick Dam,TN august 25th, 1935. He went to Davidson College in Davidson,NC. He also attended the University of Iowa writer's workshop in Iowa city,Iowa.
ReplyDeleteWalt Witman was alive from 1819-1892. He was a "later day" successor of many early poets such as Shakespear.
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ReplyDeleteEdgar allen poe was born in 1804 and lived in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City as well as boston mass. At age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously said that these were the causes: alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents. He wrote many famous poems including the raven,Alone, An Acrostic and An Enigma.
ReplyDeleteMy poet is Ernest Thayer. He was the amazing poet who brought us "Casey at bat". He graduated from Harvard in 1885 with highest honors and I think we all know Harvard is a hard school to get into. He moved to San Fransisco but h had to move back to the east coast for health issues. -John Paul Ayala
DeleteMy poet is Shel Silverstien. He was born into a Jewish family on September 25, 1930. His style of poetry is hard to describe but it requires a great sense of imagination and the clever usages of funny hyperboles. One of the things that surprises me the most about Shel Silverstien is that he only went to college for one year! His awesome poetry books include: Falling Up, A Light in the Attic, and (my personal favorite) Where the Sidewalk Ends. – Sebastian Cave
ReplyDeleteMy pet is Robert frost. He was born in San frasisco and started writing Poems furring high school. In 1885he got married to elinor white. Then he started to publish his poems. Later on the road he died on January 29, 1963 in Boston.
ReplyDeletemy poet i am studying is Dr Seuss. A few cool facts about him are my dad meet him in San Diego cal but at that time he had stopped writing. Dr Seuss is one of the most publish writers ever.
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