You should read a poem every day. In one year that's 365 poems. In 10 years that's 3650 poems. Imagine how wise and well read you will be in 10 years. You will be able to share poetry with people, like a modern travelling bard. 



I read all of Yeats' poems this way and now I'm reading John Donne's poems.

>>21991988 (OP)

I read several poems every day, my go to poet is Trakl, I always have that Trakl site open as a tab. Often it is poems Ive already read though 



I also read a couple of the poems people post here every day, both the originals and the famous stuff. I only read an actual new book of poems or a long poem maybe every couple weeks though

>>21991988 (OP)

quote ONE (1) poem from memory

I've never read poetry, am actually quite new to literature as a whole.



Quick fire recommend me some poetry so I can read everything. thanks anons

This is good advice anon. I will try to take this up.

>>21991988 (OP)

A lot of poems are junk

By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down

Ye, we wept, when we remembered Sion

We hung up our harps in the midst thereof

Those that wasted us required of us mirth

Saying, sing us one of the songs of Sion

But how shall we sing the Lord's song

In a strange land?



If I forget thee, O Jerusalem

Let my right hand forget her cunning

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my roof of my mouth

If I prefer no Jerusalem above my chiefest joy



Remember, O Lord, the Edomites, who in the day of Jerusalem said,

Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof

O Daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed

Happy shall he be, that rewardest thee as thou hast served us

Happy shall he be that, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones

Against the stones.

There is a tremendous amount of poetry. As far as English language poetry the most popular and accessible periods are the Romantic poets and the modernist poets. Some particularly popular examples:

Ts Eliot - the wasteland

Yeats - the second coming

Shelley - ozymandias

Coleridge - Kubla Khan 



If you like any of these just read more by that poet



Thank you, i'll start in order

Read the yeats and Shelley first because they're short

>>21991988 (OP)

esl here, is there a good poetry anthology that also has commentary and interpretation as well?

I literally do not understand poetry or how its meant to be read, or how it's supposed to work. Everytime I read it, it just looks like a bunch of disjointed sentences

same, which is why I was looking for this >>21992820 , I found An Introduction to Poetry by X.J. Kennedy that does seem to fit the bill.

>>21991988 (OP)

NPC moment.
