tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19166613.post3722021961851678079..comments2023-10-16T04:27:14.917-07:00Comments on noise annoys: Louis MacNeice's "Meeting Point"bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08209157384586985480noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19166613.post-89097530821745823932008-07-11T10:15:00.000-07:002008-07-11T10:15:00.000-07:00Thanks for posting about Louis MacNeice, I don’t t...Thanks for posting about Louis MacNeice, I don’t think I’ve ever read any of his work but his name was familiar…anyway, I really enjoyed Meeting Point and several of the other poems I found following your links – his work seems very accessible and lyrical. Okay, you asked for a little advice, and while I don’t know a lot about poets, I do have some favorites I’d like to share with you (and I know you’re familiar with some of them already).<BR/>Poetry is a pretty private thing, it either speaks to you on a personal level or it doesn’t. While I was exposed to quite a bit of poetry in college, the only poets that I’ve read with any regularity are a few of the lyric poets from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – I like poems that have an innate sense of melody and rhythm. I really can’t tolerate the mid-twentieth century modernist poems of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, etc. – not only do I not like the structure, I don’t enjoy the bleak hopelessness and the attempt at “realism” that permeates the whole modernist movement (poetry and fiction). I KNOW that life is hard and that it can be pretty ugly at times, but it doesn’t have to be hopeless and most of the people I know are contented with their life most of the time and when life becomes challenging and/or melancholy, I want to be encouraged to persevere and find my out of the low spot – I don’t want to wallow in it. <BR/>A-hem, excuse me while I climb down off my soapbox…my list of favorite poets (and my favorite corresponding volume or collection) include:<BR/>Christina Rosetti (The Goblin Market and Other Poems)<BR/>W.B. Yeats (The collected Poems of W.B. Yeats)<BR/>Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali)<BR/>R.L. Stevenson (A Child’s Garden of Verses)<BR/>Kipling (any collection, all of them)<BR/>G.K. Chesterton (G. K. Chesterton's Early Poetry)<BR/>Walter de la Mare (The Listeners and Other Poems)<BR/>And of course there’s also Townes, Joe Strummer, Mike Scott, Mark Kozelek, Keren Ann, etc., etc…Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com