What/Who is Your Favorite Poem/Poet?

[Lady Countryrose]

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
BY ROBERT FROST

"Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."

A poem that speaks to me like no other.

[Rae]

Robert Frost wrote "A Road Not Taken" in 1916. It really doesn't matter what century, or even decade, in which we live. One will always ponder on the paths, which one to take. I endeavored to always take the path less traveled, and it did make all the difference.

[Khall04]

My favorite Poets are Edgar Allen Poe as well as Maya Angelou

[TheSeelieCourtJester]

Edgar Allen Poe, and William Shakespeare are my two favorite poets. Poe because he writes about lost love, horror, perhaps everything that had happened in his life, and for whatever morbid reason, I still find incredibly interesting. I love William Shakespeare because, like Poe, he utilizes human emotions to craft well-planned verses, but at the same time, shows that he can be whimsical, that life isn't as bleak as everyone makes it out to be.

[vservices27]

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? - Poem by William Shakespeare

[lancer254]

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. It always plays on my mind whenever I'm torn in between choices.

[FireFairy]

There are so many great poets and poems out there, but my all time favorite has always been Edgar Allan Poe. I have a hard time choosing a favorite poem of his, but I think I'd have to go with Annabel Lee. I still love many other poets, but Poe has always been my favorite; my goth phase never really ended lol.

[geoffrey ngoima]

Sylvia Plath.. Can't decide about my favourite poem though

[Ashley Simon]

Mary Oliver, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman. Impossible to pick only one favorite!

[TheWriteAngel]

"Dreams Deferred" by Langston Hughes and "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by W. B. Yeats.