Poetry Lovers?

Caboose

<div class="IPBDescription">Recomendations?</div> I have an assignment due tomorrow, where I have to analyze 2 poems (1 Sonnet and one Ballade), among other things. Anyway, I come to you, the NS forums, help me. Give me 2 poems to analyze, preferably ones that aren't too hard and preferably written in modern English (I hate that middle English crap).

Please, hurry!!!

Private_Coleman

<!--c1--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1-->    How calmly does the olive branch
   observe the sky begin to blanch,
   without a cry, without a prayer,
   with no betrayal of despair!
   Sometime
   while night obscures the tree
   the zenith of its life will be
   gone, past, forever.
   And from thence
   a second history will commence
   a chronicle no longer gold
   a bargaining with mist and mold
   and finally
   the broken stem,
   the plummeting to earth, and then
   an intercourse not well designed
   for beings of a golden kind,
   whose native green must arch above
   the earth's obscene corrupting love,
   and still
   the ripe fruit and the branch
   observe the sky begin to blanch
   without a cry, without a prayer,
   with no betrayal of despair.
   Oh courage! could you not as well
   select a second place to dwell,
   not onl in that golden tree
   but in the frightened heart of me?<!--c2--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->

I don't care if you can't use it. I like it.

DiscoZombie

<a href='http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html' target='_blank'>Prufrock</a>

can't go wrong there.

shakespeare's sonnets are nice but yeah, got some olde english in there...

<a href='http://www.blakearchive.org/cgi-bin/nph-dweb/blake/Illuminated-Book/@Generic__CollectionView;sm=transcrip?DwebQuery=(((innocense)+in+%3Cl%3E)+not+in+%3Cnote%3E)&DwebSearchAll=1' target='_blank'>William Blake</a> also rules, particularly the songs of innocense and of experience. you may have heard The Tyger before:

<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->
 
01    The Tyger.

 
02    Tyger Tyger. burning bright,
03    In the forests of the night;
04    What immortal hand or eye,
05    Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

 
06    In what distant deeps or skies.
07    Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
08    On what wings dare he aspire?
09    What the hand, dare sieze the fire?

 
10    And what shoulder, & what art,
11    Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
12    And when thy heart began to beat,
13    What dread hand? & what dread feet?

 
14    What the hammer? what the chain,
15    In what furnace was thy brain?
16    What the anvil? what dread grasp,
17    Dare its deadly terrors clasp:

 
18    When the stars threw down their spears
19    And water'd heaven with their tears:
20    Did he smile his work to see?
21    Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

 
22    Tyger Tyger burning bright,
23    In the forests of the night;
24    What immortal hand or eye,
25    Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

TychoCelchuuu

There once was a man from Nantucket...

Ah, forget it. It's not even funny anymore. Try "Ozymandias," that's a good one.

kavasa

Ha, gg sonnets. Punish your teacher with Shakespeare. You wanna assign sonnets, you get to read the same ones over and over and over and over again.