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01 Mar 2007 Thu 01:15 am |
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W.B.Yeats (1865) Britain
Pablo Neruda (1904) Chile
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01 Mar 2007 Thu 01:22 am |
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I couldnt choose so many! but my favorites are all latin :
- Pablo Neruda (Chile)
- Gabriela Mistral (Chile)
- Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Spain)
- Juana de América ( Uruguay )
- Vicente Huidobro (Chile)
- Rubén DarÃo ( Nicaragua)
- Nicanor Parra ( Chile)
- Federico GarcÃa Lorca ( Spain)
and from Turkey of Course Nazım .
Greetings!
Dilara.
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01 Mar 2007 Thu 01:51 am |
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Quoting niobe:
Guillaume Apollinaire (188 Italy
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Correction:
Guillaume Apollinaire ( 1880 ) France
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01 Mar 2007 Thu 02:48 am |
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Yes Apollinaire was born and raised in Italy then immigrated to France.
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01 Mar 2007 Thu 03:10 am |
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Well... here is my favourite ten for the time being.
Charles Baudlaire
(the poet of poets)
1. Vladimir Mayakovsky
2. Nazım Hikmet
3. Pablo Neruda
4. Aleksandr Pushkin
5. Louis Aragon
6. Paul Eluard
7. Yannis Ritsos
8. Walt Whitman
9. Garcia Lorca
10. Konstantinos Kavafy
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01 Mar 2007 Thu 03:21 am |
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Quoting onder: Yes Apollinaire was born and raised in Italy then immigrated to France.
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Appolinaire was actually French-Italian-Polish poet: born in Rome, his real name was Wilhelm-Apollinaris von Kostrowitzky, his mother was a Polish noble lady, who lived in the Vatican and had two sons not being married, so nobody knows for certain who Guillaume's father was. Anyway, after moving to Paris, Guillaume joined the bohemian artist circles and soon became a leading character there. As the innovator of French poetry, with all his literary activities in French language, we can’t call him different but French poet.(He even fought in French Army in World War I and in 1916 was seriously wounded in the temple.)
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01 Mar 2007 Thu 03:43 am |
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This is the list of MY favorite poets ever - I know that I missed many “all-time†classics, but I decided to post my personal choice:
Russian poets:
1. Alexandr Pushkin
2. Mikhail Lermontov
3. Fedor Tyutchev
4. Nikolay Nekrasov
5. Anna Akhmatova
6. Alexandr Blok
7. Vladimir Vysotsky
Serbian poets:
1. Jovan Dučić
2. Miloš Crnjanski
3. Milan Rakić
4. Aleksa Å antić
5. Desanka Maksimović
6. Miroslav Antić
French poets:
1. Jacques Prevert
2. Paul Eluard
3. Robert Desnos
4. Guillaume Apollinaire
5. Arthur Rimbaud
Turkish poets:
1. Ahmet Selçuk İlkan
2. Özdemir Asaf
3. Ãœmit Yaşar Oğuzcan
4. Attila İlhan
5. Ataol Behramoğlu
6. Can Yücel
7. Nazım Hikmet
8. Orhan Veli
Greek poets:
1. Yannis Ritsos
2. Constantino Kafavis
3. Odysseus Elytis
4. Kostas Kariotakis
Other poets:
1. my absolute favorite Pablo Neruda
2. Rabindranath Tagore
3. Rudyard Kipling
4. Gabriela Mistral
5. Halina Poswiatowska
Oooops! Did you say 25, or 35?
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01 Mar 2007 Thu 10:14 pm |
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I adore everything they ever wrote!
1. Langston Hughes - USA
2. James Weldon Johnson - USA
3. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz - Mexico
4. Alfonsina Storni - Argentina
5. Jose Hernandez (Martin Fierro)- Argentina
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01 Mar 2007 Thu 10:34 pm |
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Quoting slavica: Arthur Rimbaud |
Quoting Capoeira:
Langston Hughes - USA |
How come I could have forgotten these! 
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01 Mar 2007 Thu 10:37 pm |
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I just can't make a choice so fast, there are too many good poets in this world! Can I start my list and finish it later?
Marina Tcvetaeva, Russia
Anna Akhmatova, Russia
Osip Mandelshtam, Russia
Joseph Brodsky, Russia/U.S.A.
Friedrich Hölderlin, Germany
Robert Louis Stevenson, Britain (Scotland)
Heinrich Heine, Germany
William Butler Yeats, Britain
Omar Hayyam, Persia
Edgar Allan Poe, U.S.A.
Thomas Stearns Eliot, U.S.A.
Zbigniew Herbert, Poland
Laza Kostić, Serbia
Miloš Crnjanski, Serbia
Bilhana Kavi, India (11th century)
Pir Sultan Abdal, Turkey
(to be continued)
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03 Mar 2007 Sat 12:42 am |
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Edited (3/17/2009) by accountant
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03 Mar 2007 Sat 02:10 am |
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Quoting niobe: What are your favorite 25 best poets of the world?
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Quoting accountant: by Edgar Allan Poe
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Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe is classic of world poetry indeed, but the question for this topic was very clear - who are your favorite 25 best world poets?
So, accountant, can we see your list?
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03 Mar 2007 Sat 02:33 am |
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Edited (3/17/2009) by accountant
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03 Mar 2007 Sat 02:40 am |
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Good choice, accountant, congratulations!
I'm just wondering, are you so big fan of Pablo Neruda to add him twice at you list?
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03 Mar 2007 Sat 02:41 am |
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Edited (3/17/2009) by accountant
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03 Mar 2007 Sat 03:27 am |
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Edited (3/17/2009) by accountant
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03 Mar 2007 Sat 03:38 am |
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03 Mar 2007 Sat 11:09 am |
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I love the peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo...Los heraldos negros is an amazing piece of writing...I am sorry I don´t have the translation to english but I can´t resist sharing it:
Hay golpes en la vida, tan fuertes... Yo no sé!
Golpes como del odio de Dios; como si ante ellos,
la resaca de todo lo sufrido
se empozara en el alma... Yo no sé!
Son pocos; pero son... Abren zanjas oscuras
en el rostro más fiero y en el lomo más fuerte.
Serán tal vez los potros de bárbaros atilas;
o los heraldos negros que nos manda la Muerte.
Son las caÃdas hondas de los Cristos del alma
de alguna fe adorable que el Destino blasfema.
Esos golpes sangrientos son las crepitaciones
de algún pan que en la puerta del horno se nos quema.
Y el hombre... Pobre... pobre! Vuelve los ojos, como
cuando por sobre el hombro nos llama una palmada;
vuelve los ojos locos, y todo lo vivido
se empoza, como charco de culpa, en la mirada.
Hay golpes en la vida, tan fuertes... Yo no sé!
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03 Mar 2007 Sat 04:53 pm |
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Haven't we been supposed to make LISTS of our favourite poets here, not to post poetry? We already have several poetry threads (like Informal Poetry and I Love You Poem). This one was meant for something else... please go and see the similar thread about prose here - we listed our favourite novels and had a small discussion about writers and reading. We were not posting novels.
Anyway, I thought it was kind of a rule on this site to post original text with translation to English or Turkish (or both). I liked the poem you posted, but I also think if we don't keep our threads tidy, we will not have right to protest if our admins decide to remove or even delete them.
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05 Mar 2007 Mon 04:13 am |
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Continuing the initial thread, here my favorite poets. Unfortunately they don't reach the number of 25. But who knows if I have a look at the ones you all posted they will soon exceed this number...
My all favorite: Rainer Maria Rilke
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Friedrich Hölderlin
Joseph von Eichendorff
Silja Walter
Arthur Rimbaud
Charles Baudelaire
Stéphane Mallarmé
William Shakespeare
Rudyard Kipling
Nazım Hıkmet
Ãœmit Yaşar Oğuzcan
Orhan Veli Kanık
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10 Mar 2007 Sat 08:22 pm |
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Sorry, do you really think, that Mayakovskiy was so great?
"Singer of revolution", he has so agressiv, without harmony...
2aiça: eh, Goelderlin's poetry was so patriotic!
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11 Mar 2007 Sun 01:29 am |
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11 Mar 2007 Sun 09:13 am |
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Quoting Aslan: I love the peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo |
+1 I just recently, this past week, started reading his poetry. (Got a long list of things to read!!!) But, without doubt he's marvellous!
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11 Mar 2007 Sun 09:17 am |
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Quoting duda: Haven't we been supposed to make LISTS of our favourite poets here, not to post poetry? We already have several poetry threads (like Informal Poetry and I Love You Poem). This one was meant for something else... please go and see the similar thread about prose here - we listed our favourite novels and had a small discussion about writers and reading. We were not posting novels.
Anyway, I thought it was kind of a rule on this site to post original text with translation to English or Turkish (or both). I liked the poem you posted, but I also think if we don't keep our threads tidy, we will not have right to protest if our admins decide to remove or even delete them. |
I don't think posting a poem is going against the idea of the thread. If there are rules and rule breakers perhaps we should start with the people who posted more than 25 as that is explicitly stated in the title of the thread as well! I find allowing it to evolve into posting a favorite piece, not some sappy homemade love sonnet, is also note worthy and thought provoking.
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11 Mar 2007 Sun 09:52 am |
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...I am so sorry, duda...it will not happen again...I will not post any poems again in this thread, with or without translation...
I will control myself much better in the future! 
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11 Mar 2007 Sun 06:50 pm |
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...I wish I had the translation, but I don´t... 
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11 Mar 2007 Sun 07:22 pm |
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As much as understand Spanish, I think this is "Los heraldos negros" poem. But I don't know who translated it, if I find, I will add later.
Here you are, Aslan.
Black Messengers
There are in life such hard blows... I don't know!
Blows seemingly from God's wrath; as if before them
the undertow of all our sufferings
is embedded in our souls... I don't know!
There are few; but are... opening dark furrows
in the fiercest of faces and the strongest of loins,
They are perhaps the colts of barbaric Attilas
or the dark heralds Death sends us.
They are the deep falls of the Christ of the soul,
of some adorable one that Destiny Blasphemes.
Those bloody blows are the crepitation
of some bread getting burned on us by the oven's door.
And the man... poor... poor!
He turnes his eyes around, like
when patting calls us upon our shoulder;
he turns his crazed maddened eyes,
and all of life's experiences become stagnant, like a puddle of guilt, in a daze.
There are such hard blows in life, I don't know.
Cesar Vallejo
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11 Mar 2007 Sun 11:44 pm |
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Is there any of you who regards and loves me as a poet? 
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 12:05 am |
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I always preferred the tragedy of Claude Frollo...
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 12:26 am |
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Quoting duda: I always preferred the tragedy of Claude Frollo... |
Well... I must admit you have broken my heart! I don't think I will ever forgive you!
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 12:31 am |
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Quoting Kallisto: Sorry, do you really think, that Mayakovskiy was so great?
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I personally don’t like Mayakovski and don’t think that he was so great, he was just declared great by Soviet authorities because of supporting their ideology and transfering it through his poetry to the people.
But this is just my humble opinion.
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 12:34 am |
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Quoting slavica: Quoting Kallisto: Sorry, do you really think, that Mayakovskiy was so great?
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I personally don’t like Mayakovski and don’t think that he was so great, he was just declared great by Soviet authorities because of supporting their ideology and transfering it through his poetry to the people.
But this is just my humble opinion.
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Then you must also confess that you don't like 20th.century poetry of the world based mainly on Mayakovsky's poetry!
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 12:40 am |
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Has anybody read Mayakovsky's letters and telegrams? THAT is poetry, I must say.
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 12:44 am |
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It is true that Mayakovsky wrote some really terrible poems, the purpose of which was nothing but to agitate. However this could in no way be enough to cover the great aspect of his art. What we get from modern poetry today, we do owe Mayakovksy!
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 01:00 am |
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Slavica - I must also add this: If it hadn't been for Mayakovky, Nazim Hikmet and Pablo Neruda, for example, whom, I know, you do like very much, had never existed as two great poets of the century!
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 01:19 am |
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Quoting Quasimodo: Slavica - I must also add this: If it hadn't been for Mayakovky, Nazim Hikmet and Pablo Neruda, for example, whom, I know, you do like very much, had never existed as two great poets of the century! |
OK, may I modify my message?
I don't like Mayakovski. I don't like any of his poems. This is my personal opinion. It doesn't mean that he was not great.
Satisfied now?
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 01:23 am |
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Quoting Capoeira:
I don't think posting a poem is going against the idea of the thread. If there are rules and rule breakers perhaps we should start with the people who posted more than 25 as that is explicitly stated in the title of the thread as well! I find allowing it to evolve into posting a favorite piece, not some sappy homemade love sonnet, is also note worthy and thought provoking.
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I’ve shortened my list to 25 poets, with apologize for being rule breaker.
Here it goes:
1. Alexandr Pushkin
2. Mikhail Lermontov
3. Fedor Tyutchev
4. Anna Akhmatova
5. Alexandr Blok
6. Jovan Dučić
7. Miloš Crnjanski
8. Desanka Maksimović
9. Miroslav Antić
10. Jacques Prevert
11. Paul Eluard
12. Robert Desnos
13. Guillaume Apollinaire
14. Ahmet Selçuk İlkan
15. Özdemir Asaf
16. Ãœmit Yaşar Oğuzcan
17. Attila İlhan
18. Ataol Behramoğlu
19. Can Yücel
20. Nazim Hikmet
21. Yannis Ritsos
22. Constantino Kafavis
23. Odysseus Elytis
24. Pablo Neruda
25. Rabindranath Tagore
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 01:26 am |
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Quoting slavica: Quoting Quasimodo: Slavica - I must also add this: If it hadn't been for Mayakovky, Nazim Hikmet and Pablo Neruda, for example, whom, I know, you do like very much, had never existed as two great poets of the century! |
OK, may I modify my message?
I don't like Mayakovski. I don't like any of his poems. This is my personal opinion. It doesn't mean that he was not great.
Satisfied now?
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But I like your poetry, if it means something for you 
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 01:28 am |
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You know no Soviet authority remained today, but Mayakovsky is still where he had always been! If what you said was true, today no-one would read his poems, no-one would mention him as "a poet", for in that case, he had been forgotten already. But he is still there without any Soviet authority today.
Well, of course, it is your opinion, and the above and my previous posts were a reply to your argument. That's all. No offence, please!
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 01:30 am |
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Quoting slavica: Quoting slavica: Quoting Quasimodo: Slavica - I must also add this: If it hadn't been for Mayakovky, Nazim Hikmet and Pablo Neruda, for example, whom, I know, you do like very much, had never existed as two great poets of the century! |
OK, may I modify my message?
I don't like Mayakovski. I don't like any of his poems. This is my personal opinion. It doesn't mean that he was not great.
Satisfied now?
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But I like your poetry, if it means something for you |
I like, too. Thank you!
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 01:51 am |
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Quoting vineyards: If Ahmet Selcuk Ilkan is a poet then I dub myself Shakespeare.
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I’ve read and really loved some poems of Ahmet Selçuk İlkan, not having an idea that he was not a poet.
Should I remove his name from my list, Mr. Shakespeare?
Or I have right to decide myself whom I will conceive poet and whom not?
Quoting vineyards:
There is nothing like a top poet. Because there is not just one kind of poetry. There are different tastes instead. Liking Nazim but detesting Ritsos is inconceivable. Poetry is a cultural thing just like kitchen.
You start with a Peruvian poet and end the night with Hayyam without seeking superiority. As you read on you get ready for other tastes too.
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Who asked for a top poet? Niobe’s question was who are our 25 favorite poets and, as I can see, people mostly posted lists of their favorite poets, according to their tastes, and not detesting others’ tastes. So what is the problem?
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:02 am |
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:17 am |
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Well, Slavica, it seems you take offence from whatever we write. No one can be blamed, for they like this poet or that poet. However I think anyone has right to express their opinion and can make some criticism. As you noticed, no-one blamed you and the other user who posted on Mayakovksy first since you expressed your opinion on him. But you might have satisfied with not adding Mayakovsky to your list, mightn't you? And you weren't supposed to comment on him, were you? If you don't like a poet, you simply don't add them to your list, that's all. Then, as long as you make comments on any poet, this creates a right, for lovers of that poet, to reply.
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:18 am |
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I don't feel any hatred here... Categories "great", "good" and "favourite" poets are three different categories... And there are many people who love Shakespeare's plays, but are not crazy about his sonnets. For example, I prefer Leopardi's sonnets.
And to you, Quasimodo:
Quoting Quasimodo: Quoting duda: I always preferred the tragedy of Claude Frollo... |
Well... I must admit you have broken my heart! I don't think I will ever forgive you! |
What I wanted to say is that your new name is just too narrow for your poetry. You don't agree with me that Claude was more tragic figure? And more suitable for your verses? It was a compliment, but you can take it however you wish...
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:23 am |
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:25 am |
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Quoting duda:
And to you, Quasimodo:
Quoting Quasimodo: Quoting duda: I always preferred the tragedy of Claude Frollo... |
Well... I must admit you have broken my heart! I don't think I will ever forgive you! |
What I wanted to say is that your new name is just too narrow for your poetry. You don't agree with me that Claud was more tragic figure? And more suitable for your verses? It was a compliment, but yu can take it however you wish... |
Yeah, with reference to poetry and being poetic, you are right. But I think I,as Qusimodo, merit Esmeralda so much more than as Claud, which is the most important point for me. Who would care poetry compared with Esmeralda herself? Poetry can only take her, for itself, as only subject. But how about having Esmeralda herself?
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:26 am |
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Quoting duda: I don't feel any hatred here... |
yeah no hatred... it was just know-it-alls ego...
Ahmet Selcuk İlkan may sound too arabesk may be not that intellectual...
but he has given lyrics to very well known singers, like Zerrin Özer...
if we expect some regard, i believe, first of all we must watch our words...
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:29 am |
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Quoting vineyards: Duda that is completely your own assumption. What you are saying is not based on any publicly available data. For example I like his sonnets more than I do many of his plays. This is my taste. Everyone has a right to have a taste.
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Well, it IS based on MANY publicly available data. Read more about Leopardi, please. AND Leopardi, please. But I am NOT saying that Shakespeare is better or that Leopardi is better. I said "I prefer", as you could read. You was the first one who started about tastes. What Slavica and Quasimodo are doing is a discussion. Discussion doesn't mean quarreling. We talk about our preferences here and we try not to offend anybody or to humiliate someone's taste. Thanks.
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:31 am |
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Sui - Believe me, in 20 year time, no-one will be able to remember those well-known names such as Ahmet Selçuk İlkan and Zerrin Ozer!
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:31 am |
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:35 am |
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Quoting Quasimodo
Yeah, with reference to poetry and being poetic, you are right. But I think I,as Qusimodo, merit Esmeralda so much more than as Claud, which is the most important point for me. Who would care poetry compared with Esmeralda herself? Poetry can only take her, for itself, as only subject. But how about having Esmeralda herself? [/QUOTE:
You forget I am female. My poetry is always Claude-like... Esmeralda poetry or Claude poetry... I suppose we have the same point. Until we choose goat poetry.
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:36 am |
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:38 am |
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Quoting vineyards: Why are you so full of hatred?
If we are both referring to Ahmet Selcuk Ilkan the lyrics writer for some low-life arabesque songs and if your are placing him next to Hikmet or Lorca then sorry I am closer to being Mr. Shakespeare.
Please mind your manners. Or else let us not write to each other...
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:40 am |
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:41 am |
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Quoting Quasimodo: Sui - Believe me, in 20 year time, no-one will be able to remember those well-known names such as Ahmet Selçuk İlkan and Zerrin Ozer! |
20 years later you will find yourself crying with zerrin ozer's song and then you will remember me
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:42 am |
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Well, I never acted in Shakespeare's plays, but I transliterated his sonnets and studdied his works a lot, which means a lot of so-called "additional literature". So I know what am I talking about. Some critiques tell us that he gave his best in comedies, the other tell us that he was best in his tragedies, etc. etc. Even they do not share the same opinion. So can we, humble and common mortals, have our personal opinion, please?
And I was not talking about Petrarcha but Leopardi. I hope you know who am I talking about.
P.S. This was an answer to vineyards; sorry, Sui!
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:43 am |
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Quoting Quasimodo: Well, Slavica, it seems you take offence from whatever we write. No one can be blamed, for they like this poet or that poet. However I think anyone has right to express their opinion and can make some criticism. As you noticed, no-one blamed you and the other user who posted on Mayakovksy first since you expressed your opinion on him. But you might have satisfied with not adding Mayakovsky to your list, mightn't you? And you weren't supposed to comment on him, were you? If you don't like a poet, you simply don't add them to your list, that's all. Then, as long as you make comments on any poet, this creates a right, for lovers of that poet, to reply. |
I'm sorry if you understood my messages like that. I didn't complain to anyone's expressing its opinion, but to the way it was expressed.
Anyway, I apologize if you felt offended.
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:45 am |
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Quoting SuiGeneris: Quoting Quasimodo: Sui - Believe me, in 20 year time, no-one will be able to remember those well-known names such as Ahmet Selçuk İlkan and Zerrin Ozer! |
20 years later you will find yourself crying with zerrin ozer's song and then you will remember me |
Give me your personal info that can help me to find you 20 years later, and if I myself can remember that name in that time, I will remind you of it. Then I will see your facial expression!
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:49 am |
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Quoting Quasimodo:
Give me your personal info that can help me to find you 20 years later, and if I myself can remember that name in that time, I will remind you of it. Then I will see your facial expression!
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what 20 years later you will call me and say that, Sui i didnot remember that woman we were talking about?
Quasimodo you are really tragedy... tragicomedy
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:53 am |
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:53 am |
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Quoting SuiGeneris: Quoting Quasimodo:
Give me your personal info that can help me to find you 20 years later, and if I myself can remember that name in that time, I will remind you of it. Then I will see your facial expression!
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what 20 years later you will call me and say that, Sui i didnot remember that woman we were talking about?
Quasimodo you are really tragedy... tragicomedy |
No, I will find you to remind you of Zerrin Ozer and see your frozen-fish-look on your face in that time.
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 02:57 am |
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Quoting vineyards: Are you referring to Giacomo Leopardi? What is the connection apart from both being (also) poets?
They belong to completely different periods. I used Petrarcha because he is the representative of the Italian ballare form and the English sonnet was based on it.
There are many similarities between them. As a matter of fact these two related genres are individually referred to as Petrarchan sonnet and Shakespearen sonnet.
So there is quite a link there. |
In case you didn't know, Leopardi wrote sonnets too. We are not talking about Rennaissance poets here, but about poets only. If you start a thread about RENNAISSANCE poets, we can dicuss about Petrarcha and Shakespeare then. Though it would be dead race again, for Petrarchian and Shakespearean sonnets are two different forms... OK, can we leave these people to dicuss about poetry now, please?
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 03:03 am |
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 03:07 am |
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But please read them in Italian, even if you don't speak that language. Or you will miss their absolute beauty.
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 03:13 am |
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No, I am not Italian, and I can't say I speak Italian. But I can read it, and thanks to my school Latin I can understand it a bit. Anyway, I try to read each poem in its original language (if I am able to, of course), to feel it's rhytm. And I recommend the same to all serious readers and poetry-lovers.
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 03:37 am |
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Thanks for your suggestion. I appreciate it, and I hope I will find in my country.
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 03:47 am |
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Thanks for the link. I download from Gutenberg often, but never have time to go through its catalogue.
Wish you nice evening.
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01 Jan 2008 Tue 06:26 am |
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As an English person with only a year's experience of anything Turkish, I am not well up on Turkish poets but I notice the posts are including other nationalities. So, in no particular order:
I have recently bought work by Yunus Emre and Rumi and my first impression is one of wonder.
Emily Bronte 1818 - 1848 England - little known as a poet and best known for her "Wuthering Heights", a brilliant piece of work.
Ted Hughes 1930 - 1998 England Poet and Author and I most admire his children's story "The iron Man" (appeals to adults too) which I think has many poetic phrases/techniques within it.
Roger McGough 1937 - England. Writer of children's poetry - we all have to start somewhere and I enjoyed sharing his poems with my daughter when she was young and also my students now.
Seamus Heaney - 1939 - Northern Ireland. I haven't read him in a long time but I remember studying his work at University and enjoying it.
William Wordsworth 1770-1850 England
William Shakespeare 1564-1616 England
Wilfred Owen 1893-1918 England
William Blake 1757 - 1827 England
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 - 1834 England, - was also a philosopher
John Keats 1795-1821 England
There are many other English poets I could list but, as I don't read much of them it wouldn't be fair and I would like to leave room for some new ones, which I will search from the previous posts.
I would really recommend people to read The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Not a poem but the language and imagery is super. It's not such a long book either. He brought out a sequel some years ago to mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of The iron Man . . . I think it was called The Iron Woman but I may be wrong. I remember it was more of a 'scarey' theme than the first one though .
Thank you
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02 Jan 2008 Wed 03:51 am |
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I am very glad to see that people are still posting at this wonderful thread. Excellent job, peace train!
But I wonder what those holes up there mean... someone read Leopardi? Or stopped loving Shakespeare's sonnets? :-S Or I am just having a mid-winter night's dream?
"Pyramus:
O kiss me through the hole of this vile wall!
Thisbe:
I kiss the wall's hole, not your lips at all."
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02 Jan 2008 Wed 04:02 am |
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I wondered about the Vineyards gaps too
duda you made me laugh because you brought back a memory of mine. I played the part of one of those 2 shakespearean characters. I can't be bothered to research and look it up becasue I want to go to bed but I don't remember the name of the character, it was the one who was a man playing the woman's part. What makes that even more odd is, I went to an all girls' school so, I was a girl playing a man, playing a woman. I added a few props of my own without telling the Teacher: I shoved two balloons up the front of my costume, blacked my teeth out and stuck a pin on the end of the dagger. I said my line "Thus die I" stabbed myself (bang went the balloons)and collapsed. The other character made her speech whilst lying across me and we couldn't get our lines out for laughing. The play was produced for the school's Drama Cup . . . needless to say we didn't win, but who cares we had fun
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02 Jan 2008 Wed 04:07 am |
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Great, I am sure Shakespeare would have laughed himself! Well, that's an evidence that even the holes in balloons can't spoil a good play. 
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01 Nov 2008 Sat 04:58 am |
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You all have forgetten Necip Fazil Kisakurek
hE IS ONE OF THE BEST POET
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01 Nov 2008 Sat 08:15 pm |
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01 Nov 2008 Sat 08:18 pm |
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ALL-TIME POETS
William Shakespeare - England
William Wordsworth - England
Wilfred Owen - England
William Blake - England
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - England
John Keats - England
Rudyard Kipling - India, England
William Butler Yeats - Ireland
Wang Wei - China
Nicolas Guillen - Africa
Paul Celan - Austria
Matsuo Baþa - Japan
Aleksandr Sergeyeviç Puþkin - Russia
Vladimir Mayakovsky - Russia
Edgar Allan Poe - U.S.A.
Walt Whitman - U.S.A.
Thomas Stearns Eliot - U.S.A.
Ezra Pound - U.S.A.
Robert Lee frost - U.S.A.
Charles Baudlaire - France
Paul Verlaine - France
Guillaume Apollinaire - France
Stéphane Mallarme – France
Jacques Prevert - France
Arthur Rimbaud - France
Louis Aragon - France
Paul Eluard - France
Pablo Neruda - Chile
Sappho Ancient - Greece
Yannis Ritsos - Greece
Garcia Lorca - Spain
Heinrich Heine - Germany
Zbigniew Herbert - Poland
Laza Kostić - Serbia
Miloš Crnjanski - Serbia
Bilhana Kavi - India
Ömer Hayyam - Iran
Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi - Türkiye
Yunus Emre - Türkiye
Pir Sultan Abdal - Türkiye
Ahmet Haþim - Türkiye
Yahya Kemal Beyatlý - Türkiye
Nazým Hikmet Ran - Türkiye
Necip fazýl Kýsakürek - Türkiye
Orhan veli Kanýk – Türkiye
Cahit Külebi - Türkiye
Turgut Uyar - Türkiye
Edip Cansever - Türkiye
Attila Ãlhan - Türkiye
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Yilgun - why are you posting this when you already started another thread? We don´t need to run two threads on so-called ´All Time Poets.
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01 Nov 2008 Sat 08:30 pm |
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I deleted
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01 Nov 2008 Sat 08:47 pm |
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Thank you
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