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Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Teco2(m): 10:30pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
William Wordsworth |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by NessFortunate: 10:43pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
inverseparanoia:Maya Angelou GOAT. Majestic Kelly Roper. Eloquent Allan Poe. 1 Like |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Prosper91(m): 10:45pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
John Donne |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by tundeabib1: 10:46pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
teejay29:"In vain your bangles cast. Charmed circles at my feet. I am the Abiku. Calling for tge first and the repeated times............." 1 Like |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by tundeabib1: 10:48pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Gbadebo19:"Zogbese Liza had treated me thus"............. 1 Like |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by tundeabib1: 10:56pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Richy4:Beautiful! 1 Like |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by uniquelyspecial(m): 11:01pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
omoredia:What's the right way to spell what he said? "O lule" |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Princeton92(m): 11:06pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Myself...... |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Angelsssss(f): 11:07pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
J.P Clark, Riverside exchange |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Richy4(m): 11:12pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
tundeabib1:Honestly Kofi.. was an excellent African poet..So original.. |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Dicko007(m): 11:14pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Realists: You sabi poets man. The guy is their own version Naira marleyv back in the days of jahiliyah |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Warmaterial(m): 11:27pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Kofi awoonor, Nicholas Gogol, William Butler Yet |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by tundeabib1: 11:47pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Richy4:Just getting the reminiscence of good old days. We would jokingly recite the poem anytime things got difficult when we were in the University. I wonder what happened to the reading cultures. The other day I was searching frantically bookshops in Lagos for any African Writers series' novels. I found none! So pathetic. |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Markswag101: 12:02am On Jun 13, 2022 |
Pablo Neruda |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Richy4(m): 12:54am On Jun 13, 2022 |
tundeabib1: You were really lucky to have circle of friends that loved literature while you were in the university... I was all alone in that... My love for literature while in secondary school was as a result of the fact that we had an exceptional teacher from Ghana... I wanted to run away from it like my friends did when we were told of the number of books we have to read in order to pass .. I simply encouraged myself that since I was kind of good in English language, literature in English will not be much of a problem.. We kick started with the trial of Brother Jero, it went well, my biggest challenge was the Shakespeare but our teacher was there to explain away all those horrifying English language... I turned out to be the best in my set.. during prize giving day, I was rewarded with a miserable book Gullivers Travel.. when I opened the gift... Chai!!!.. I remembered my friends were laughing their lungs out at my misery.. 1 Like |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by tundeabib1: 1:37am On Jun 13, 2022 |
Richy4:I have been howling with laughter here too. Only "Gullivers Travel". But as a matter of fact, gifts or rewards for academic brilliancy in those days were not monetized. The belief was that gifts should be any materials correlated to whatever field in which the beneficiary excels. I remember I was giving a ton of textbooks for being the overall best pupil in my primary school days. |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Olamide5252: 6:25am On Jun 13, 2022 |
Stab at thee he that will No stab the soul can kill SOUL ERRAND BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Stonezz(m): 6:31am On Jun 13, 2022 |
Okot p'Bitek....song of Lawino |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by sassiemyk: 6:33am On Jun 13, 2022 |
Mitch SilverSun ~ 1900's "I told you if you I will quit But if I quite you can never win" |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Perspicacity: 6:51am On Jun 13, 2022 |
J.P Clark, Night Rain It's raining hard here And I suppose everywhere Droning with insistent ardour Upon our rooftop and shed 1 Like |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Uniquisite: 7:10am On Jun 13, 2022 |
Peter Drury |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by bigboa: 7:32am On Jun 13, 2022 |
JP Clark-Bekederomo with Night rain. A poem so powerful it titillates all the senses. That being said, I think it is difficult to appreciate a poem if the reader cannot identify with the context/culture the poet is writing in. What I mean is that we appreciate what resonates with us. |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Mubarakgano(m): 7:37am On Jun 13, 2022 |
Okay! |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Nwaotu10(m): 7:41am On Jun 13, 2022 |
John milton. [ 99% of his sight has failed when he wrote "paradise lost" and "paradise regain." I respect him so much] Andrew marvel.. (To his coy mistress) A good poem for virgins and church-like girls who are yet to explore their sexuality. 1 Like |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Nwaotu10(m): 7:45am On Jun 13, 2022 |
Teco2: The father of poetry. "the world is too much with us" my favourite wordsworth's poem |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by kemiola89(f): 7:57am On Jun 13, 2022 |
Rudy Franscesco - Islamophobe |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Somebody13: 8:10am On Jun 13, 2022 |
Cattle egret by Okot .P.Bitek is my best poem |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by DeCamer(m): 8:34am On Jun 13, 2022 |
Peter dury for sure |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Ceejay57: 9:56am On Jun 13, 2022 |
shakespeare |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by teejay29(m): 10:40am On Jun 13, 2022 |
Richy4: |
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