Best Poet?

[Cloe101]

Robert Frost

[Kat Kennedy]

Sylvia Plath is my favorite. I also like the Romantics, Lord Byron, Keats, Shelley. I love the Best poets esp Ginsberg. And Dorothy Parker is a hoot!

[Tanny136]

The works of Kahlil Gibran, Wordsworth and Blake have always fascinated me. I love reading their poems

[Star88]

Izumi Shikibu! She is from Japan's Heian period. She wrote many emotional haikus.

[TheWriteAngel]

Robert Frost and Wordsworth are among the top poets for me.

[ReyvrexQuestor Reyes]

Best Poet? NO never. I mean all are good collectively, or each one best in its own right. I'd like to borrow from the cliche, "Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder" the concept that a Poem's appraisal lies upon the effect it strikes on the reader. In this sense, Neruda, Shakespeare, free verse or rhymed, or-what-have-you, et al, should not pose comparison to each other. I must admit, though, that I, myself, is prejudiced towards the rhymed and fixed poetic formats. But far be it from me to throw any aspersion towards other forms. They serve their purpose just as well.

[Starrlibra]

Robert Frost for me

[Arushi Singh]

I'll go with Sylvia Plath, Robert Browning and Ocean vuong.

[Ivony Fair]

Have you guys ever read WILLIAM BLAKE'S poetry?

He's my best poet because he's really romantic( not love romantic but he uses romantic words when writing his poetry) and his poetry explores the nature between good and evil rather than discussing about logical, he emphasizes on what we couldn't understand. The natural phenomena and sometimes it confused me but this madman is really amazing!! Go check him out!!

One of his poems ( The Poison Tree )

I was angry with my friend,
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe,
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I watered it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears.
And I sunned it with smiles,
And soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine.

And into my garden stole,
When the night had veiled the pole.
In the morning glad I see,
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

[Sebasrodalba]

Aside from Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe

[Barbiedole]

Back in school, while studying literature, I loved P. B. Shirley's works so much that I had a dog in school and I named her Shirley, after the poet.

[Mslady143]

Edgar Poe, Joseph Brodsky, Nikki Giovanni, and Maya Angelou. The best of the best in my personal opinion.

[Mdoc]

There are lots of wonderful poems here.

[rmccoy14]

I would say that r.h. Sins is the best poet for teens!

[Insightsintobooks729]

My favorite authors are Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allen Poe. I love The Raven by Poe.