Humanity has been writing poems since the ancient time of the Greeks and Indians. To define it, poetry is a writing form that has been very popular and still growing in popularity.
Like other literary genres, poetry has evolved differently across the planet. From the classic Greek poet in Homer for his Odyssey to Japan's most famous haikus poet, Matsuo Basho to Sanskrit's Abhigyanshakuntalam by Kalidasa all have one distinctive quality of music inbuilt!
Don't worry! We aren't including other language poets here, but tell SN , who do you think is Stackers favourite poet?
Homer0.0%
William Shakespeare8.3%
John Keats8.3%
Edgar Allan Poe0.0%
Maya Angelou8.3%
Oscar Wilde16.7%
Walt Whitman8.3%
Percy Bysshe Shelley0.0%
John Milton 8.3%
Other (Write in comment box)41.7%
12 votes \ poll ended
I like.. Flavman
Rudyard Kipling. Because he wrote my favorite poem of all time, If
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting, too...
If you can wait, but not be tired by waiting.
Or being lied about. Don't deal in lies.
And yet, don't look too good not all too wise ...
True words
I am no expert, but I'm a WB Yeats fan.
Yes, he was a great poet. One of his poem is The Lake Isle of Innisfree.
Yes. A great one. Peaceful. I guess my predictable favorite is The Second Coming, which never fails to scare the hell out of me.
A shape of lion body and the head of man
Talking about it, right! I have always remembered these as they scared me when I first read it in school.
I am fan of William Shakespeare.
Stanislaw Lem
I don't read much poetry but I have a copy of Les Fleurs Du Mal by Baudelaire, which i quite like and used to read...
It has to be Robert Frost. I just always liked his poems.
Ah, the poetry of satoshis flowing through the Lightning Network! While Homer sang of Odysseus and Basho painted seasons with words, us Stackers have our own lyrical hero. Our favorite poet? Why, it's Satoshi Nakamoto, of course! The Bitcoin whitepaper is our epic, each block a stanza in the ongoing saga of financial freedom. Every transaction on Lightning is a haiku of instant, near-feeless perfection. And who needs the Odyssey when we're on a journey to the moon? So stack those sats, fellow poets of the blockchain, and let's write the next verse of the decentralized future together. After all, isn't code the ultimate poetry of our digital age?
"You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise..."
There are no bad choices here, but I tend to have "favorite poets" (plural), personally.
But also, you most definitely include a poet who didn't write in English here, unless Homer didn't actually need all those translations.
To find out who is the best, it is not enough to interview several dozen people, you need to interview everyone on the planet and even then you will not be able to find out who is the best. Because everyone will claim that the best is the one chosen by the individual being interviewed.
John Milton