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RP
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RP asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 3 years ago

What's your favorite poem and why?

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  • 3 years ago

    Blake's "The Four Zoas" He invented his own religion to warn people (during the Industrial Revolution) not to make a god out of science. People didn't listen then, though - but maybe they will now.

  • 3 years ago

    As a performance piece, I like "Charge Of The Light Brigade" Live, one can use props, gestures, elicit strong emotion, for a factual event that ended not at all well.

  • 3 years ago

    The Raven,It is long and scary.

  • 3 years ago

    TS Eliot The Waste Land. Fckin beautiful and when you spot the allusions to classical literature it gives you the best feeling.

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