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I could tell you what poetry is accourding to my English teacher but it take all night!

Few replies?
Or everyone truly think that poetry isn't intersting at all?

Poetry is interesting but it's just not everyones cup of tea !

Personally I like Burns & Shakespeare but that's because i'm from scotland and had Burns drummed into me from a young age at school and that i just like Shakespeare!

I just wish that we would have poetry in school... *sigh* We have only small parts of Shakespeare and some Finnish poets. Kalevala is something that every Finn must know.
Personally I like William Blake, Dante, Keats, Yeats, ( I haven't find Burns anywhere ) and some Finnish poets.
Do you write anything yourself?

God no i'm only 15 and any i have written have been in school and haven't been very good although i have had one published; although that was along with about the whole of the school population in Tayside! (thats where i live!)

I shall have a look for some Burns for you to read!
You may have trouble understanding it seeing i'm Scottish & have problemsthe language is old Scots and very difficult to understand!

We haven't done alot of poetry but i do like the ones you have mentioned well those i know of!

The worst poet I have ever come across was William Magonigal who was a poet who lived in the city about an hour from where i live and wrote such classics as "the Tay the Tay the silvery Tay, alas it is flowing the wrong way" and others!

Anyway I shall have a look for a site on Burns for you to have a look at!

Ok my mum who i asked about Burns found a couple of poems this being one you may or may not know!

'O my Luve's like a red, red rose' by Robert Burns

O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June:
Omy Luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune.

As Fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in Luve am I:
And will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry:

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi'the sun;
I will Luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only Luve!
And fare thee weel awhile!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho'it were ten thousand mile.


And part of William McGonagall (who's name i spelt wrong in my last postings:

"The Tay Bridge disaster"

which shall take me ages to write out so i shall post that later along with the sites that i find!

Ok I found these the first will give you a rough background to Burns himself & the second will actually give you the poems

http://www.scotsmart.com/info/famous/r_burns.html

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hope that will enlighten you on the wonders of Scottish poets!

Thank you for the page!
And almost forgot... Happy New Year!
I have studied some Old Scottish and Gaelic a bit since one of my favorite hobbies is history (mainly European). Your country has very interesting history and traditions, so be very proud of them.
The poem was excellent, I must collect more Burns and look for it from old book stores.
Heh, the worse poet? Hmm... I must think about that. Since it could be me, but none of my works aren't published so no one couldn't critise the work. And the poems are mainly Finnish. But I wrote few English poems for school project but they didn't publish anything.
Poems differ a bit from time to time, expecially when you read the 1700th poetry or 1800th poetry. Modern poets are sometimes even too complicated to understand since the poems can be very weird.
Okay, there is a one poet who I don't like! Finnish poet called Tommy Tabermann. I read those poems few years ago but maybe I should try them again. I just didn't like them because they were boring. Some poets use very colourful words for things that happen. Personally I like Dante also, since the language is very rich and the idea for the poem is excellent indeed. I have almost finished Dante's Divine Comedie, heh, I'm still wandering in Paradise. You should try William Blake. If I understood the English poems they would open you more easily...

I can't say what years of poetry i like the most but i have read some very moving poems such as.......

Dulce et decorum est by Wilfred Owen's

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, -
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori."

He was killed days before the end of the first world war!

Shame

Huh, that was really good! And I don't mention his death.
The war usually wipes out the best of us.
Poems usually grow from extereme atmosphere, good or bad, sometimes between. Sad thing is that the poets can be destroyed by the atmosphere. I have book from W.H. Hodgson, horror mainly, he died at the first world war also. I think world lost a good writer also... But we just have to hope that there would be no wars any more, since they are always destructive.
I just bought a new book to the shelf. Aenais from Vergilius. Yes, the story is 2000 years old but have survived to these days. I have to read next after Sinuhe the Egyptian and Dante's Divine Comedie.

We have been doing the 1st world war in Religious Education (RE) in School! and its basically the question we were ask was
Do we believe it is right to have war?
Anyway weve been watching videos in it about the war and it always makes me think of that poem it's so moving!

& really shows what war was really like!

We have been doing the 1st world war in Religious Education (RE) in School! and its basically the question we were ask was
Do we believe it is right to have war?
Anyway weve been watching videos in it about the war and it always makes me think of that poem it's so moving!

& really shows what war was really like!

I read history as a hobby so I know what was the World War I about... Those days military officers were often taken to rule, huh, it never gets nothing good. Religion always handles etchics at the same time and we have been studying those things too. Since in philosophy thigs are quite different in etchics...
But all the writings I have read from World War I are very same as in the poem. He has been able to discribe so well the situation which has been very horrific! Peace to his soul, but I think his writings never die...

Can I ask how old you are?

Personally I'm 15 and took Geography istead of history but still have a bit of knowledge (very small!)

Lets get of the subject of war please it'll just make me want to kill my friends even more!

*I get your point though!*

I'm 18 and I like history very much. So I have some spare time, I sometimes use it for personal research. I have read all the history courses from secondary education level, since they were same that in junior high, but I like like to study.
War is always good excuse to kill friends and get some fresh air.

I started a big poetry project since I have been writing the poem from last November. It is kind of long right now, maybe 60 different poems, but they all make the story. I cannot finish because I always invent more...

More I'm lucky if i can usually think of one poem at a time! & that makes my head hurt!

I haven't read the whole poem for a long time because I have always so much work inventing more...

Good on you i wish i could be like that but i tend to get bored easily!

Hehee, I first thought so when I begun to read Dante... I was wrong...

Whats Dante.......seeing i haven't been online for the past few days i figure i should ask!