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Post by gilmorefanalways on Dec 5, 2013 21:06:47 GMT -5
In your opinion who is or was the best poet?
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Dec 6, 2013 23:35:23 GMT -5
William Shakespeare was the first poet that I enjoyed. I love his sonnets. I must indulge my love by quoting sonnet #1 which encourages a beautiful young man to reproduce so that his beauty will live on.  "From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding:
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee. " |
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